《The Avarice System》 1 Prologue. "What am I missing? The thing I desire is within my reach! Why cannot I take it and become the greatest?!?" The small room in the rented apartment. The old man was sitting on the couch and screaming to the world. His name was Marcus, one of the greatest scientists on Earth and the greatest failure at the same time. "Nothing is important anymore. This world is worth nothing without you.HAHAHA!" His wife died of brain cancer, and he lost interest in living. He failed to save her. It was his fault that he couldn''t invent the cure for her. He loved his wife more than the entire world. The science has failed him, so he searched no scientific means to save her and non-scientific means didn''t help him either. Despite discovering things that couldn''t be explained with the law of physics, he couldn''t be happy because his darling was dying. All struggle for nothing... The pain of loss and feeling of helplessness was the only things he had. "If the world took everything from me. I will take everything from for myself." His genius allowed him, to create multiple world-shaking technologies. The purpose was clear, making the whole world belong to him, then conquering the entire universe and becoming the (owner) of everything. Most people on Earth weren''t aware that he was slowly controlling every aspect of their lives. In the beginning, it was innocent although as time passed, Marcus started to affect politics and religious aspects of their lives. It was his worst mistake since some people started to track his movements. He didn''t predict his own demise, the many forces formed an alliance to destroy him and his plans. One night, it took only one night to destroy his entire plans. They struck into his main base and destroyed him. Due to luck or misfortune, he managed to escape from death. All of his projects and technologies fell into their hands, and his body was on the verge of death. "I failed. The entire world wouldn''t let me possess itself." He escaped from death, yet at a terrible cost. "Darkness is beautiful. I miss you, Alice." After these words, he died and none will ever remember him. "You are right, little lost soul."Said unknown voice. Marcus regained consciousness but the only thing he saw was darkness. He tried to move but there wasn''t any feeling in his body. There absolutely no feeling. No pain, no sorrow. It was nothing. "Hahaha. What a funny struggle! Little soul, you won''t be able to talk or do anything. You are a little strand of soul and it''s impossible."Said the same voice while laughing. "You see, your attempt to conquer the world was quite interesting. I thought, why not grant you another chance. I will let you live another life in one of the most chaotic worlds." "I will give you a gift because I enjoyed your performance on Earth. OK, enough of chitchat." The voice said and Marcus lost consciousness again. A few hours later, a young boy with white hair was terribly beaten up by a group of thugs. He was resisting for some time but after half of the hour, his body stopped moving. [Body found.] [Binding body with a soul.] [Binding complete.] [Awakening the soul of the host.] "ARGHHHH. What the hell? Why this hurts so much?" Marcus awake and felt an incredible level of pain. [The life-threatening wounds are being repaired. The host should stop moving and wait patiently.] "Shit! Who the fuck are you?" Marcus asked angrily. [I am Avarice System.] "Avarice System? What the hell?!?" Marcus stopped screaming from pain and thought for a moment, but he couldn''t recall his identity or anything from his past life. He knew one thing for sure, he died in his previous life. "Why I cannot remember anything from my previous life?" [Repair of the body complete. The question cannot be answered.] "What? Why?" Marcus was confused and asked another question. [That''s easy. You have no permission to access this knowledge.] Marcus sat on the ground watching his surroundings, it was middle of nowhere. The memories weren''t there but some of his habits were imprinted inside of his soul. "Hmmm. Panicking will not help me in any way right now. You, the system can you help me in any way?" [Answering to the host. GPS system is locked. The system recommends a host to rest until the dawn.] "That''s right. If there is anyone or anything to kill me, my decision won''t change anything. I need rest to move and on the day I would see where am I." A moment later, he was sleeping. Most of the wounds were repaired by the system but tiredness and pain didn''t disappear completely. "Son, I am disappointed in you. I thought you will inherit at least part of my talent. Look at you, you are worse than ordinary... Don''t even try to search me, you don''t deserve to be my son." The man said with disdain in his voice and threw 5-year boy out of his carriage middle of the village. The next years were worse for this boy. He was weak and different, an ideal target for local bullies. Pain and hunger were only two things he knew during these years. It was final night, most of the local thugs were drunk, and he was lucky enough to be on their way, and he was beaten to death. Morning, next day. "These dreams? It was the life of the (owner) of this body." He thought and felt anger. The things didn''t happen to him but this body is now his, and he needed to take responsibilities related to it. "It''s stupid but this boy was called Aron. So I will be Aron from now on. I wouldn''t care about these people but this body is mine right so it was like they were bulling me and what''s most important I don''t let any fucker bully me!" He said with wrath in his eyes. He stood up and watched his surroundings. This place was pretty far from the village. It was outskirts of the local forest, the thugs must have dropped this body here to not leave any proof of their deed. This world looked like middle ages and none cared about lives but killing in public was still a crime. [Quest sub-system activated!] 2 Quest? [Quest sub-system activated.] [Quest generated.] "What is this? I don''t understand." [The system will give a quest to reward the host''s actions.] [The system is given to host to assist host in development.] [Quest Name: Sweet Revenge!] [Quest Goal: Get revenge on local thugs.] [Quest Reward: ???] "Ok. Let''s leave it. I need to come back to the village. I am hungry but I can move so let''s go!" He started walking in the direction of his village. Aron was living in one abandoned hut in the outskirts of the village. The boy intelligence was pretty low, and he couldn''t do much. If you could define failure, it would be called Aron in this world. Stupid, talentless and weak. After an hour of walk, Aron finally reached the village. The village was full of wooden huts with straw roofs. He couldn''t understand how something so unfamiliar was giving him a sense of familiarity. "It''s confusing. I am Aron now but his life experiences are not really mine. This is so confusing for my mind. I need to get used to it soon." He was pondering about these things as it brought an annoying feeling. The people in the village wasn''t evil, in every group, there are some black sheep. In this particular village, there are few of them. They thought that they are justice as Aron is different from them, it must be something wrong with him. Another thing was actually Aron himself, he wasn''t able to defend himself or even talk back. Weak individuals are always targeted by such people, it was easy to bully someone to boost your own ego. Aron decided to go to his hut and try to find something to eat. His current body wasn''t ready for any kind of revenge. The hut was quite deteriorated the roof was full of holes and this wasn''t a really good place to live. The weather in this region was similar to European countries in terms of seasons. "It''s my home... I need to do something about this." He thought about this but his stomach started to grumble. There wasn''t anything edible in this house. Most of the things were some old rotten things that previous Aron kept none knew for what. He survived thanks to one girl in the village that always gave him something to eat in grave times like this. "I cannot do much about it. I need to go and get something to eat." He thought and left to ask for food. The girl''s house wasn''t far from his position. He got there in a few minutes. "ARON! YOU ARE ALIVE!" She shouted and hugged him while sobbing and crying. He was like a little brother to her, despite his previous disabilities. Most of the villagers considered her as beautiful, she had a perfect figure and long red hair. She had pretty face with freckles on it. What''s most important she was kind and nice to all people. He could always rely on her warmth and helping hand. Sometimes, the girl was getting into trouble because of him and what''s weirdest boy didn''t thank her properly even once. New Aron will change this relationship from now on or maybe after the meal as his stomach needed assistance. He was very ravenous and you couldn''t work with an empty stomach. [Quest Generated.] [Quest name: Swap of roles.] [Quest goal: Become someone reliable in Rose mind.] [Quest reward: ???] "Hi, Rose. I missed you too." He said and the girl jumped away from him. "WHO ARE YOUUUU?!? AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ARRRRON?" She asked with a terrified voice. Simple confidence, straight posture, and way of talking made him a different person. "I slipped and hit my head. It made my mind clearer, and I am sorry, for all the things I made you go through before because of my stupidity. I will compensate you with many folds!" His voice carried confidence and Rose couldn''t believe that it''s a mild boy that she used to help. "AAAAA? It''s good for you. I cannot be always there for you little Aron. You don''t need to compensate me anything. As long as you don''t put me in any trouble, I will be happy." Rose was smiling with happiness. She felt that there is hope for the pitiful boy before her. RUMBLE! RUMBLE! Aron''s stomach started to make weird noises. "Hahaha. Come inside, there are some leftovers from breakfast." She invited him to her family''s hut. Interior of this house was many times better than rotting hovel that he is living in. It wasn''t luxurious but it was simple and cozy. "Thank you, Rose!" Aron said with sincerity. Rose was a little shocked because it was something new to her. Previous Aron wasn''t talking much, and he definitely didn''t thank anyone for anything. They entered the hut and Rose gave Aron some porridge''s leftovers from breakfast. Her father was a village''s hunter and luckily he left at dawn to hunt. Rose''s father didn''t like the idea of feeding the parasite like Aron, so it wouldn''t end well if he saw him in his own house. Aron thanked Rose and left, he was useless and his hut needed some repairs before any revenge. Villagers were surprised when they saw the current Aron. It was more than 180 degrees change, firstly he didn''t dodge the eye contact, another thing was you could feel his confidence coming from his ugly body. It was unbelievable, people don''t change overnight like he just did. Aron examined the necessary repairs and it wasn''t easy. First, he needed materials for the repairs and with his popularity and wealth, it will be impossible to get anything. "System? Can you help me some way?" Aron asked the mysterious being that was talking to him inside his head from time to time. [There is no solution. The host can finish the quest to get a reward.] "Thank you... Really, change your entire opinion in Rose mind or get revenge on a group of people stronger than you. Just great..." It wasn''t time for self-pity, Aron stood up and decided to go search for a way to get materials for hut''s repairs. He was skinny and weak, his eyes were blue and hair was white. Although if he wasn''t malnourished his appearance would be little above average, it wasn''t important now. New Aron can persuade people with his confidence. Most of the kids in his age were already working with their parents for a few years while learning their future profession. The village had few mayor professions, the most respected hunter, hunters were getting food from the forest while risking their lives. Rose''s father was one of the hunters, and he was the best hunter in the village. Another job was a carpenter, they were responsible for building, repairing and creating some wooden tools. Their source of materials is lumberjacks, some carpenters were lumberjacks too but in more professional workshops, carpenters focused on their profession and left getting the wood logs to the lumberjacks. The most important decisions in the village were made by the village chief. Most of them were old and thanks to their experience and life''s wisdom, they were great judges and guides for villagers. Some of them had knowledge in herbs and could use it to heal but it wasn''t in all cases. Tools were made by blacksmiths, yet it was a rare profession because this profession required a long apprenticeship and most of the blacksmiths didn''t take apprentices outside of the family. It made this profession, family thing. 3 Getting job. Aron reached carpenter house and started knocking his door. Creak! The door opened and a middle-aged man appeared before Aron. He looked at the Aron and said. "I won''t give you any food. SCRAM!" He chased him away with the move of the hand. The boy didn''t give up and shouted. "I am not here for food. I am looking for work. Could you let me work in your carpentry?" He asked with confidence, the man was surprised this boy wasn''t able to even look into someone eyes and now he is trying to persuade him to something. "Let me think. You probably will be hindering my work more than helping me. Go somewhere else!" He said and closed the door. [New Quest generated!] [Quest name: Prove yourself!] [Quest goal: Prove your worth to the village.] [Reward:???] "Why, there are always question marks on reward..." [Most of the functions are locked so the host will need to unlock them, before using these functions.] "Whatever, I will go to next place. Someone will let me work.." He walked from house to house and most people chased him away before he could say anything. The entire village knew him and none wanted to have someone useless near their lifeline. After visiting almost all inhabitants, he was ready to give up but there was still one place to check. The farm on outskirts. It was quite an isolated place from the rest and its owner seemed like a weird person. "Get out, I don''t have anything for you." The hoarse voice shouted from inside. "I am not here for food. I am searching for work." Aron tried to prevent a situation that happened to him every time. "Interesting. I actually need some hands on my fields and in my coop." The door opened and an old man with ragged appearance appeared before Aron. "I will do anything!" Said desperately, Aron. The man scanned Aron with his eyes, he was quite disappointed. "Ok, let it be. I am Roger. You will start by cleaning the coop, and we will see if you are useful in any kind of another area." They entered the coop the hens and roosters were outside so it was empty. Roger handed him a wooden bucket and spade and said. "Start from cleaning their shit and move it to the pile next to fields. When you clean it, check nests if there are nests in bad state clean them up and go to the barn and take some hay to replace it." After this, he left. Aron started cleaning and it wasn''t easy to do. Chicken''s poop likes to dry and become hard to clean. The boy was weak, and he couldn''t even move full bucket, so he was filling half of it every time. A few hours of work and his stomach started to growl but work wasn''t in half-way. "I need to finish it." He was determined, none would let him work if he couldn''t do such a simple thing. A few buckets later the Roger came and invited him for a dinner. Before they entered the hut, he pointed at water well and said. "Go clean yourself, are you pig?" Aron cleaned himself, it''s good that Roger prepared a bucket of water next to well because he wouldn''t be able to get it himself. The boy entered the hut and it was quite messy. It looked like none was cleaning this place for very long. Their meal was some simple soup from vegetables and black bread. "Sit." Roger was already sitting next to the table and there was a prepared spot for Aron. The youngster sat and didn''t actually know what to do. He knew that most of the villagers believed in gods and normal tradition was to thank the gods for food before eating. "I am sorry but do we thank gods for this food?" Aron asked with a concerned voice as he didn''t know about tradition much. In his memories, the previous owner saw it through the window in one of the villager''s houses. "No. Gods didn''t do anything to get, this kind of treatment..." Roger uttered with little anger in his voice. Aron didn''t want to anger him more, so he stayed silent and ate. After he finished, he thanked for food and wanted to go to coop but Roger stopped him. "This is all for today. Hens need to lay eggs. So come tomorrow if you want." Aron came back to his hut and time was something around 4 PM. His body was dead tired, and he collapsed on his bed and fell asleep. He woke up the next day before dawn, and he was very hungry. This time he decided that he won''t go to Rose and went to Roger. He finally reached his house and the man was already awake. "Good morning." Aron greeted him but Roger only uttered some words without real form. "It''s too early to clean the coop. Come later." He said and came back to his work. "I can do anything." Although, his body muscles were still sore, and he was barely walking. He was determined to work. "Ohhh. Okay, do you see these pile of rocks there?" He pointed at pile rocks in few meters away of the field. "I plan to make expand this field and these rocks need to be moved from there." After this, he pointed big rock hundred meters away from the fields and came back to his work again. Aron wasn''t really efficient. He could move a few rocks in every course. It didn''t stop him, around two hours later. Roger invited him for breakfast and they ate together. "You are a weak kid but I see little potential in you. Keep this up and maybe you will become real man someday." He said and they began working again. [Hidden Quest Completed.] [Quest name: I am not USELESS!] [Quest details: Make someone in the village think that you are not completely useless.] [Quest reward: Status System] 4 Status System. [Status system is being initiated.] "ARGHHHH. Why it''s always fucking painful?" He said while gritting his teeth. [Host''s body needed to be adapted to the host''s status. Displaying the host''s status.] [Name: Aron] [Title: White-haired Trash] [Age: 11 Years old] [Race: Human/??] [Talents: None.] [Strength: 0,6/3 - Weakling] [Agility: 0,7/3 - Slowpoke] [Endurance: 1,3 - Congratulation, you are more suited for being a punching bag than human!] [Intelligence: 0.5/5 ...] [Perception: 20(System Boost) - System will help host learn skills so the perception got an ultra booster! : )] [Charisma: 0,4 - Beware of the mirrors!] [Positive traits: None] [Negative traits: Stupid, Talentless, Malnourished, ??] [Skills: Fieldwork lv. 1(20/40)] Aron became speechless, his status couldn''t be worse than that. No talents, no positive traits. It was a miracle that he was alive right now. He felt that he has problems in gathering his thoughts, yet the reason wasn''t so simple. This body brain is too bad and it''s quite problematic. [Don''t worry host, with system help. The host can become the unparalleled existence with a little bit of hard work and a terrific amount of pain] "Is it possible to remove these negative traits?" [Yes. The host should stop talking to the system. You can use your thoughts to communicate with the system.] Aron couldn''t get any useful information from the system, so he came back to his work. The rocks were heavy and his muscles were sore from previous working. ''No pain, no gain. Ha...'' [Fieldwork proficiency increased. Fieldwork lv.1(21/40)] [Fieldwork proficiency increased. Fieldwork lv.1(22/40)] ... ''Stop it! I DON''T WANT TO FUCKIN SEE NOTIFICATION EVERY PROFICIENCY POINT!'' It was too annoying, he started to scream inside his mind. [System will display notifications only when skill level up from now on.] The silence was better than a million notifications inside of his mind. The kid could finally focus on work. [Fieldwork level up] [Due constant physical work your strength increased by 0,05] He wasn''t bothered much by these notifications and continued to work. Although, it was only 0,05 strength gain. Carrying these stones became easier. ''It didn''t change my strength much.'' He started paying attention to the way he is carrying the stones. The difference was quite obvious, the boy positioned his arms differently and the job became easier and efficient. ''System, 0,65 Strength what does it mean?'' The numbers were a weird way to put someone''s strength or agility. [These are statistical numbers. 0,6 means that the host is strong as 0,6 of the average human. It''s the same logic with other stats.] ''1 is an average human. It''s quite shameful that I am not even strong as an average person.'' His assignment was finished in no time, the fieldwork reached the 3rd level. It was already lunchtime and they went to it. The village wasn''t rich in any way, most of the meals were simple and only hunters and owners of animals could allow themselves to eat meat or animal''s products. Roger was one of the lucky ones, he had a coop and that allowed him to eat eggs from time to time. After lunch the Roger said: "It''s enough for today. I don''t think your weak body can handle more work." The boy came back to his hut, it was still in a terrible state but it couldn''t be helped. His work on Roger''s farm wasn''t something that could let him bargain for some kind of payment. The meals were more than he deserved. ''If weightlifting increased my strength, so running around should increase my agility.'' Aron started running around his hut and this sight from outsiders view looked ridiculous, however, he didn''t care much about their opinion much. After around half of hour, the boy got a notification. [Running skill generated] [Running lv.0 (1/100)] ''So I can get skill for any action I do? It''s incredible.'' His legs were aching like crazy. At least his mind was strong because his body was too weak. ''I will clean up, my hut and rest.'' This wasn''t an easy task because the interior of this rotten place was really messy. Dust, rot, and dirt everywhere. ''Let''s clean this place up!'' Time passed and it was almost evening but his house could be considered inhabitable now. At least if we consider only hygiene because this building still needed a lot of repairs and renovations. ''I am so tired...'' [Cleaning skill generated: Cleaning lv.0(1/10)] The cleaning work generated the new skill and Aron fell asleep inside of his better house. Next day morning, Roger ordered him to pluck all weeds on his fields. The weeds were hindering the growth of crops, and they needed to be removed. The work was simple but the point was if you plucked the weed in wrong way, the roots remained. If you left the roots, the weed will regrow and you will need to pluck it again. Aron started plucking the weeds and it was a horrendous task for him. Zero knowledge about plants and weak strength. The plucked weeds needed to be moved and piled away from the field so his work became even harder. [Plucking skill generated. Plucking lv.0(2/10)] ''Nice.'' [Fieldwork level up] He understood that with every level up, his mind will be filled with knowledge and his efficiency will soar. [Due constant physical work your strength increased by 0,05] [STR: 0,7] 2 hours passed and Roger reminded him that he still needs to clean up the coop. The boy was happy because he would increase his cleaning skill. Leveling up his skills was quite a pleasant feeling. [Cleaning level up] A few hours later. They ate lunch, Aron went back to his hut and started to train running. This time it was quite fruitful, besides Running reaching level 2, his agility improved by 0,05. ''I will become better than all of these idiots that killed previous Aron'' It was his goal wasn''t unreachable thanks to this particular entity known as the system. [Strength] [Desc: A measure of how physically strong a character actually is in comparison to an ordinary human. The strength is related to weight capacity, amount of force from attacks.] [Agility] [Desc: A measure of how agile a character actually is in comparison to an ordinary human. The agility is mostly related to the speed of movement, reactions, and many different things.] [Endurance] [Desc: A measure of how robust a character actually is in comparison to an ordinary human. It''s related to stamina and the amount of damage the body can handle.] [Inteligence] [Desc: A measure of a character''s problem-solving ability.] [Perception] [Desc: A measure of a character''s ability to percept world. It''s related to comprehension of new skills and ability to percept the world through senses.] [Charisma] [Desc:A measure of a character''s social skills, and their physical appearance.] 5 Observe and Learn. Aron worked at Roger''s farm from morning to afternoon, after that he ran few laps around the village. A week passed like this, his stats rose a little. [STR:0,9 AGI:0,95 END:1,35 INT:0,5 CHA:0,6 PER:20] Thanks to regular meals with Roger his body started looking like a human being. Negative trait [Malnourished] was deleted from his status, and he felt pretty good. Most of his skills progressed slowly. [Cleaning lv.3 (164/500), Fieldwork lv5(locked), Running lv.6(467/1000), Plucking lv.max] The cleaning skill was the most underestimated skill by him, the third level could rival the most vigorous housewife. Fieldwork reached 5th level and became locked, the system didn''t give him an answer what does it mean. It was weird but a simple thing like running could be improved by using the right technique and every next level of surprised him more. Aron finished his training and thought that it''s not enough, he needs more skills and started pondering inside of his hut for a long time. Being stupid, limited his mind very much and made thinking a lot harder than an ordinary person would suffer. [Hidden Quest cleared.] [Quest name: Stop Staring!] [Quest goal: Stare at something for more than an hour.] [Reward: Appraisal Sub-system.] ''Holy Molly! Appraisal?'' He didn''t know, how his new skill worked, so he decided to check this out. [Wooden Wall] ''Not much information...but it''s useful I think. Let''s level up this skill'' [Appraisal leveled up] [Rotten Wooden Wall of Aron''s hut] ''More information with every level, it will get interesting when it will be high leveled.'' [Appraisal lv.1 7/1000] The number of points required to level up was sky-high, and it was only from level 1 to level 2. This skill proficiency was raised quite easy, a simple stare could appraise anything. After appraising for some time, he fell asleep. Roger decided that Aron will help him with making a new field. "I will show you, how to plow the earth for sowing." He instructed him and made Aron repeat. His fieldwork actually corrected a little his movement and made his plowing more efficient. [Skill Plowing generated. Plowing lv.0(1/10)] [Due to constant hardworking positive trait: Hardworking was generated.] Aron felt that his body became lighter and his mind stopped wandering from his job. Unconsciously, he became grinding appraisal and it was interesting because he could actually appraise the Roger. [Name: Roger] [Race: Human] ''I will be able to see more if I level up appraisal more.'' It was cheat-like ability, you could actually spy on people and this will be definitely useful to Aron in the future. They plowed the field together with the Roger, the skill was leveling up very fast due it''s simplicity. It took them only a few hours, however, he reached level max before finishing the job. After the meal, Roger said. "I think you have the potential to become a good farmer. Why don''t you move to one of the rooms in my house?" It wasn''t easy to say these words to the boy, but he deeply cared about him. Aron''s hut needed a lot of repairs, and he wasn''t up to this task. "I will kindly accept your offer. Thank you!" Said Aron with sincerity. The kid came back to his hut and took everything useful and went back to the farm. Roger pointed him, one of the rooms inside his house and went back to his activities. The room was in a complete mess,yet a few hours of cleaning and it will be a nice place to live. There were many old and rusted things, he thought it will be interesting to appraise all of these and find their purpose. [Appraisal lv.2(42/5000)] ''This skill will take me ages to level up.'' The first level required 200 proficiency points, 2nd level 1000 and 3rd require 5 thousand. The room was full of useless stuff but there were few quite interesting items here. [Roger''s Broken Bow.] [Description: Old short bow used by Roger to hunt, it was destroyed by him in the state of rage.] [Rusty dismantling knife] [Description: The corroded by time dismantling knife, after some cleaning it should be useful.] [Small chisel] [Description: A tool used to carve in wood or other materials.] ''Art. I wouldn''t suspect the Roger for such hobbies.'' The room became clean and it wasn''t night yet, so he decided to try new things. Grinding appraisal was something, important and his mind focused on this. ''Display my skills'' [Skills: Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Plowing lv.max, Plucking lv.max, Running lv.6(533/1000), Cleaning lv.4(32/1000), Appraisal lv.2(773/5000)] He was pondering about his next moves and suddenly. [Appraisal lv.2(773/5000)] [Desc: Allows to appraise the target and get information about the current state of the target. The information is limited to things that the host can understand. More information will be displayed with every level.] [Level cap: 10] ''I can appraise skills, it''s wonderful. Let''s try it out!'' He immediately appraised skills one after another. [Fieldwork lv.5] [Description: Allows doing work outside more efficiently. Every level increases outside''s work efficiency by 5%. Current boost is +25%] [Level up Requirement: Learning 10 connected skills or getting related talent.] [Plowing lv.max] [Desc: Describes the user''s proficiency in one of the basic farming actions.] [Requirement to evolve: Getting 3 related skills to level 5(2/3)] [Plucking lv.max] [Desc: Describes the user''s proficiency in one of the basic farming actions.] [Requirement to evolve: Getting 3 related skills to level 5(2/3)] [Running lv.6] [Desc: Makes the user''s running more skillful and gives a boost of speed.] [Boost:12%(2% per level)] [Level Cap:10] [Cleaning lv.4] [Description: Gives knowledge about cleaning techniques and makes cleaning more efficient.] [Boost: 12%(3% per level)] [Level Cap:5] ''Wow. Let''s check traits.'' [Hardworking] [Description: User can work longer and boring horrendous work won''t affect the user''s performance.] [Stupid] [Description: As you are checking this trait, proves that you are not too smart.] [Talentless] [Description: Disables discovering any talent in the host. Effect of being a hybrid of two species.] ''Two species. I don''t understand... My mother wasn''t human.'' [Host is brilliant as ever with his remarks.] 6 The Profession. The chisel was a little rusted but it was still usable, Aron had free time afternoon, and he could learn how to sculpt. The art of sculpting wasn''t for everyone, although the boy had the help of the system to learn anything. ''How to start?'' It wasn''t the point, he had no idea what to sculpt. ''Ok, let''s start from something easy.'' He found thicker stick outside and decided to use as material. The plan was to sculpt sword from it, his creativity wasn''t working at this moment. The beginning was simple he had to reshape it to the blade and handle. Time passed and the sun was almost down, the sword if you could call this weirdly shaped creation was almost ready. Aron didn''t get any skill for it and was worried but it wasn''t long before notification appeared. [Sculpting skill was generated] [Sculpting lv.0(1/100)] [Desc: The art of creating different shapes with the help of tools.] [Boost:+0,1*Art Stat to the success rate of creating a better quality piece.] [Art stat was generated.] [Art: 0,01 ¡ª Congratulation! You wouldn''t recognize art even if you pound it with your head.] ''...'' He became speechless, he knew that his creativity was bad but to this extent. [Thing made of wood.] [Description: Author tried to make a wooden sword, yet this thing came out.] [Quality: Terrible( Only because terrible is the lowest quality, if there was a lower quality standard it would be Aron''s quality.] ''...'' He decided to leave chisel and not try to sculpt anymore. The next day, it was time to sow the field. It was the first month of spring and it was quite calm spring. It was raining from time to time, yet the rain is good because the fields would be watered and without rain, plants would die. After getting skill sowing, he improved the method of sowing. Initially, the seeds were sowed shallow in the earth. It wasn''t good, the knowledge about sowing allowed him to sow the seeds in better depth. [Sowing level up.] [Skill evolution requirements fulfilled. Fusing sowing/plucking/plowing into farming.] [Farming lv.0 generated] [Farming lv.0(1/500)] [Desc: Gives general knowledge about techniques, methods, related to work on the farm.] [Grade: Mortal] [Boost: 2% per level to farming efficiency] [Level cap: 10] [Hidden quest cleared.] [Quest name: Professional knowledge.] [Quest goal: Gain profession related skill.] [Reward: Random profession related reward. Unlocking profession system.] [Do you wish to draw your reward?] ''Yes?'' [Drawing the reward...] [Congratulations! The host got farming space!] [The farming space is a subspace of personal space.] [Unlocking space sub-system.] [Personal space unlocked.] [Name: Aron] [Title: White-haired Trash] [Age: 11 Years old] [Race: Human/??] [Professions: None.] [Talents: None.] [Personal space: Farming sub-space lv.0] [Strength: 1] [Agility: 1] [Endurance: 1,35] [Intelligence: 0.5] [Perception: 20] [Charisma: 0,6] [Art: 0,01] [Positive traits: Hardworking] [Negative traits: Stupid, Talentless, ??] [Skills: Fieldwork lv. 5(Locked), Running lv.6(836/1000), Farming lv.0(1/500), Sculpting lv.0(1/100), Appraisal lv.2(3745/5000), Cleaning lv.4(32/1000)] [Do you wish to activate profession Farmer?] ''Can I change it in the future?'' [There is no limit of professions that host can pick. The only limitation is the host''s talent and time.] ''Ok. Activate it.'' At the moment his mind was filled with farming knowledge. He became little dizzy but after a few seconds, this feeling faded away, so he could continue working. The boy worked for a long time and noticed that his proficiency in farming didn''t rise much. ''System, what''s happening?'' [Displaying the logs.] [Farming proficiency increased by 0,3 points(30% due to the quality of action)] It was something new, if he didn''t do something properly the points will be decreased. This was logical but the system wasn''t logical existence to him. ''I need to focus and do it properly if I want to level up.'' They finished the sowing and Aron had free time. It was time to check out new things and train. [Farmer lv.0(0/1000)] [Description: The most common profession in...] [Boost:+0,1 STR, +0,05 AGI, +0,05 END, +1% more harvest yield per level.] [Level cap: 20] ''It means that things personally sowed by me will yield 1% more than normal plants.'' [Host is mistaken, they will yield 1% more than they supposed to yield. Example if Apple tree was supposed to yield 100 apples, it will yield 101 thanks to the host.] ''He decided to check his space.'' [Farming sub-space lv.0] [Desc: Allows the host to grow plants inside his personal space.] [Time acceleration: 10 times] [Functions: Seeds generation lv.1, Analysis, Conversion] [Time acceleration] [Description: It accelerates time inside the space. The acceleration work only on plants.] ''How do I use this space.'' [Host can enter it if hosts want. It''s possible to put things inside with a thought.] There was none around, so he decided to enter his space. [Welcome to personal space.] He appeared in the blank field with nothing around it, the space wasn''t big although there was around 1 hectare of fields. It was giving claustrophobic feeling even if there were a clear sky and no walls. [New objects detected. Analyzing.] [New plant added to the database.] [New plant added to the database.] He had only a few seeds of wheat inside of his pocket. Why did it found another plant? [Plants: Wheat, Flax] ''Flax? Ahh, my underwear is linen probably.'' It was interesting because space didn''t analyze only seeds but the all plant matter. ''System. How do I generate seeds?'' [System will generate seeds from world energy.] ''Worlds energy? I don''t understand?'' [Host wouldn''t able to understand this information.] ''Then how can I get this world energy?'' [System absorbs passively 1 world energy unit per hour. The host can convert most of the matter in world energy.] ''How do I check how much world energy I have?'' [Adding the amount of world''s energy to the status system.] [World energy: 500] ''Why it''s 500?'' [It''s amount provided by the system.] He decided to generate some wheat seeds. [Wheat: 1kg/10 WE] [Flax: 1kg/5 WE] ''How much wheat seed, I need to sow this area.'' [Entire area is 1 ha = around 100 kg of seeds of wheat.] ''It''s too much. At least I have 500 WE, so I could generate 50 kg but I would prefer to not waste my all points yet.'' After a moment of walking in a circle, he decided. ''Let''s generate 10kg of wheat and 10 kg of flax.'' In few seconds 2 big piles, appeared next to him. "SHIT! I need to plant them too." 7 Enough! The system used the body of Aron as a connection to the world to absorb the energy. At the moment when space was created, he felt world energy for a moment. ''System, will these seeds deteriorate if I leave them for some time?'' [There is a low probability of them deteriorating because space has no day/night cycle and there is weather here either. There is a possibility that some seeds closer to the ground will start to germinate.] ''Ok, then I cannot take care of this now. So I will leave them like this.'' One thought, he appeared in the real world again. ''I should visit the Rose.'' The Rose was sitting and watching the sunset, while Aron entered. "Hello, Rose!" "Hi...Arrrronnn?" She scanned him from feet to head, although his appearance didn''t improve much. His body gained some muscles, it wasn''t only skin and bones. "Wow. Look at you. You are looking like a human being now!" She exclaimed and started walking around him. "It would be weird if I didn''t change after a month of proper meals and work." He said with pride, it wasn''t like before he wasn''t begging for food. It was rightfully earned by his own hands. "You surprise me. Work hard and maybe you will fulfill this promise of yours." She smiled because of change inside of this weird boy was important to her. Rose always worried about him dying somewhere because he was too stupid to do anything. [Quest complete] [Quest goal: Become someone reliable inside of Rose mind.] [Reward: Stupid trait will be removed.] He got a big headache, so he decided to leave Rose and come back later. "Sorry, Rose... I have something to do on Roger''s farm. I will visit you, another day." Rose noticed that something was wrong because of weird expression on Aron''s face, but she thought that it was her imagination. Aron ran to his hut, the headache became stronger and stronger. Thud! He fell on the ground while losing consciousness. [Interference detected.] [Host''s soul forcibly trying to complete fusion with the body.] [Canceling the hidden quest...] [Soul completely fused!] "FINALLY, I DON''t HAVE TO WATCH THIS PATHETIC PERFORMANCE!" It was Marcus, the only little part of his soul fused previously with this body. Thanks to little world energy that entered the body. He used this opportunity to fuse completely. ''It was tiresome, watching someone does something while you could do it way better!'' [Partially unlocking the host''s memories from a previous life.] [Adjusting the stats of the host.] [Intelligence increased to 5] ''Ohh, I can think clearly now. Although some things still limit my potential, it''s better than watching that poor performance.'' [Positive trait: Genius added] ''You must put everything as data.'' His brain was still processing a lot of new knowledge. His nostrils and ears were bleeding but it wasn''t anything dangerous. ''I will sleep for a while.'' He fell asleep... A few hours later. It was already evening and the sun was down. He woke up, his head was still hurting but not as much as before. ''I need to go back to the farm.'' He stood up and left. Before he entered the house, he thought for a moment and went to well clean himself up. It was a good decision because his face was quite bloody. This sight would probably scare Roger to death. He sat on the chair inside his room and thought. ''I need to organize everything, I know and plan future steps.'' He was on top of the world for some time and good organizing and planning was crucial to his development. ''I am in the unknown world and this body didn''t get much knowledge that would help me.'' ''Although, climate flora and fauna are similar to Earth. The era is different, it''s most likely early middle ages.'' ''There are other races than human, assuming from this body status. I hope that his father wasn''t zoophile...'' ''This body name is Aron, and he was retarded due to this he died during that night. Part of me tried to do something to improve his life.'' ''I could use some of my knowledge to create technology but I don''t know everything. I need to reinvent some things. I can''t recall many of my memories that''s annoying.'' ''I have so many ideas to test this system capabilities.'' ''The system makes me like the game''s character. That will simplify many things.'' ''I spent a few years as soul and reconsidered my mistakes during my previous life.'' ''I am sorry Alice, but I need forward.'' ''The space that system provided. It''s ingenious. How does it work?'' ''I can become rich with this. The process of entering space is instant, so I can use it as dodge ability.'' ''Farmer... It''s not the best profession but in middle ages, it will provide me food and money.'' ''I can sow flax. The cotton is imported good as I remember. I should expand my database of plants, the system shows that inside of this space anything can be sowed.'' ''I need information about this world and new profession as they provide power-ups.'' ''Revenge. I know some martial arts, I should convert them into knowledge.'' ''I learned Jeet Kune Do, although I am not master, few thugs shouldn''t be a problem.'' ''Being farmer would limit me to this village, I should learn other professions too.'' After thinking for a while he postponed making a stable plan because it was already late. He needed to be in his prime to test many things and work the next day. Before he fell asleep, he decided to try sculpting as the part of him was in control before and failed terribly. It hurt his pride a little. ''I don''t believe that I suck that much at art. If junkies and drunkards can create masterpieces, it''s impossible that I cannot.'' After sculpting for 2 hours, the result was not that bad but still not acceptable. [Wooden Almost Sword] [Desc: This is close to being a wooden sword, although it''s a pretty bad looking thing. You can guess, what is it! It''s a great improvement.] [Quality: Terrible(Leave this chisel alone please!)] [Due to creating something outside of your ability art stat increased +0,1] ''RRRRRR, outside of my ability. I WILL SHOW YOU!'' [I don''t recommend continuing. It''s already late and the host needs to wake up at dawn. Proving something impossible will take years. The host doesn''t have this kind of time this evening] ''I will let you off, this time system!'' He thought and fell asleep. 8 The Experiments. This time, there wasn''t much to do on the farm, after fields were sowed. Roger gave him, day off. ''I can focus on experiments. Let''s check that can use martial arts from previous world'' He started to practice like he used to do from time to time in his previous world. Although, you had bodyguards and many other security measures. Knowing a few moves could save your life sometimes. It couldn''t protect him from guns though. [Unarmed Fighting skill created] [Martial arts: Jeet Kune Do skill generated.] [Martial arts: Jeet Kune Do level adjusted to host''s ability] ''Hmm. Can I change the name and organize things in the system?'' [You can customize cosmetic part of the system as host wants] ''First, categorize skills. Create categories like profession related and fighting etc.'' ''Second, shorten the name of Jeet Kune Do to JKD and create some rule to shorten long names to make it more efficient.'' [Customizing] [Name: Aron] [Title: White-haired trash.] [Race: Human/??] [Profession: Farmer lv.0] [Talents: None] [World energy: 370] [Positive traits: Hardworking, Genius] [Negative traits: Stupid, Talentless, ??] [Stats: STR 1/3, AGI 1/3, INT 5, PER 30, CHA 0.7, ART 0,11] [Skills] [PR Skills(Profession related skills): Sculpting lv.0(5/100), Farming lv.0(145/1000)] [Fighting skills: JKD lv.3(623/5000)] [General skills: Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Running lv.6(867/1000), Appraisal lv.2(4444/5000), Cleaning lv.4(50/1000)] ''Combine traits into one thing and hide talents as it''s empty for now.'' ''I should sow, fields in my space but before that let''s put some things inside.'' ''Ohh, do I need to enter space to put something there?'' [Host can put things inside the space, the only requirement is direct contact with objects.] ''People actually underestimate most of the weeds on their own backyards.'' In his previous life, he studied medicine to save his wife. If Marcus decided that time being doctor, he would be one of the best doctors in the world but it was still useless as Alice died. Most of the plants had some medical effects and Aron decided to utilize that knowledge. [New plant added to the database.] [New plant...] [The Farming space level up] ''So it can level up too. Interesting. System display what changed.] [World Energy accumulation increased from 1>2] [Space size increased from 1 ha to 1,1 ha] [Number of daily entries increased from 2 to 4] ''Good news, I had limited entries... Good to know. Ohhh, expanding the plant''s database is enough to level up space?'' [Requirements are something that host need to discover by himself.] ''Ok, I will. It would be boring if you told me everything anyway. Categorize the plant''s database by the way.'' [Done.] Aron entered his space and started to sow the things. It was tiresome but it will be a good safety measure. [Profession Farmer level up] His body became a little stronger. 0,1 more strength didn''t matter much if someone told you that you are 10% stronger, the reaction would be different. ''If they are growing 10 times faster, then most of these plants will mature in days.'' The most interesting thing was that he didn''t need to provide the entire plant. Small fragment like a leaf was more than enough. The system must take a genetic sample of the plant and that would explain many things. He decided that first, he will plow the entire field then goes sowing. ''Let''s spend there, 4 hours daily. I should do it, at night hours as it''s bright there for the entire time.'' ''If running is skill, then I should able to get many simple skills like this.'' [Throwing skill generated] It was one of the normal actions that you wouldn''t think as skill but it will be a good start for range fighting. You can always throw stones at someone or other hard things. [Throwing lv.0(1/50)] [Desc: Boost accuracy and gives knowledge about various throwing techniques.] [Boost:+10% to accuracy] ''Archery should be useful. Learning some melee weapons would be good.'' ''It would be useful to have some kind of shop with tools... It wasn''t easy to get metal or rare goods in this shit hole.'' He created a schedule for his days. [From dawn to afternoon(probably). ¡ª Working with Roger.] [From afternoon to dusk. ¡ª Training(Running/Throwing/JKD) [4 hours after dusk ¡ª farm space] The boy came back to Roger''s farm and decided to repair the old bow. The string was still in good state, the problem was the broken stave. Aron didn''t know much about bow making and it would be more or less replicating blueprint after seeing the actual item. It wasn''t hard the problem was he needed right kind of wood to create the good bow. He appraised the bow and found out the previous material. [Roger''s Broken Bow.] [Desc:...] [Materials used: Linen string, Yew wood] I need to find the right tree right now. He decided to do it, in the meantime and focus on something else. The attention fell on wooden creation. ''I can practice swordsmanship with this piece of wood.'' The main point of swordsmanship was 3 movements. Cut, stab and block. There are more but for the beginner as Aron, it was more than enough. He started to practice outside his hut as the sight of swinging a sword like an idiot wasn''t something that he wanted to show Roger. 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and finally. [Beginner Sword Mastery skill was generated.] ''Finally! I can learn anything and I don''t know any master. Haha!'' [Beginner Sword Mastery lv.0 (1/1000)] ''Thousand to the first level huh. This body is young and I have more time.'' The boy went to Roger to talk with him about some things. "Roger, do you have a moment?" "What do you want a boy? Speak." "I am little interested in other things but people in the village won''t speak with me much. Can you tell me more about the world and other things?" "Ohh, kid. You really like to weird questions." Roger sighed because he didn''t know how to start. [Beginner Sword Mastery] [Desc: Ability to wield sword efficiently. Mastering the skill won''t make user the master of the sword.] 9 The Basic Information. "What a drag... I don''t know where to start..." "I don''t know. Country, place and other things." "This country is Blein kingdom and it''s part of the Adae Empire." "We are currently in Amber village and its position is at outskirts of the kingdom." "What about people in power?" "There is a Royal Family in the capital, and they rule the entire kingdom from there. You can say that they rule because they rule the nobles, and they rule normal citizens." "What are the noble clans?" "There are few mayor clans, I don''t know much about them. I know only one thing, they have strange powers and life of ordinary citizens is worth nothing in front of them." "I heard someone mentioning strange beasts, that are living inside the forest." "Who talked about this?! Whatever, it doesn''t matter. If you don''t wander too deep inside the forest it''s like every other forest but deeper in the forest you can meet weird creatures that can kill you in seconds. That''s why hunters ''risk their lives'' during the hunt. It''s not about normal wolves or boars. It''s about beasts that can rip you into pieces before you even blink." "Hmm. If there are stronger beasts there must be stronger humans too." Aron thought that this world has a fantasy setting, at least it looked like it. "You are right. There are martial practitioners and mages. At that''s why I heard. There other races too probably. I don''t know any of them as I didn''t leave this village entire life. Some people brought stories here to us but I don''t know if they are true or not." "Thank you." "That''s ok, kid. Maybe you will be lucky enough to leave this cursed village and explore the world." "Do you know how to read and write?" Aron asked because for him reading and writing was a necessity. Although he could use his world languages, it wouldn''t allow him to read or communicate with others. "Nope. There are few people in villages that can read. I am sure that the village head can. " [Quest Generated] [Quest name: Reader.] [Quest goal: Learn how to write and read in this world language.] [Reward: ???] ''I see. The system, you are a lazy bum. You don''t know what reward to give so you write question marks.'' [...] ''It''s hard because I could do miracles with my knowledge, yet the level of technology of this world is too low.'' ''This world has a fantasy setting, so I need to find a way to become stronger or I cannot do anything ambitious.'' He decided to focus on grinding his skill for the next few days. His schedule remained the same for 3 weeks. After a week of hard work, the crops were finally sowed and two weeks passed from that time and most of the crops were ready for harvest. Aron entered the space and saw a beautiful sight. The crops were ready to harvest and field gave a feeling of painting because every area was colorful and the yield was bigger than he expected. ''Is it my imagination or all these crops are perfect, and they yield is almost identical.'' [Host is right. All plants generated by the system are the same. The environment is perfect there are not variables besides the host so the plant will yield will be yield and look the same. It''s advanced genetic engineering.] ''Is this possible to use genetic engineering to other purposes, right now?'' His knowledge would allow creating a formula to evolve the human DNA, yet without right devices, it was only theory. [It''s impossible. These options are not available for host.] ''What a shame.'' The harvest will take some days, yet he didn''t complain. It was a great source of food and money if he could sell it. He approached the wheat area of the field and harvested one crop and observed it. [Wheat] [Quality: High] [Nutriment: High] [Hidden quest complete] [Quest Name: First Harvest!] [Quest goal: Harvest your first crop from space.] [Reward: Storage space for the farming area.] [Generating Storage space for farming space.] Aron was surprised because on outskirts of space giant magazine appeared. [Storage magazine for farm space.] [Desc. : Space to store your crops, plants, and seeds. After inserting the crop it will be automatically sorted inside. Use the storage interface to access/insert/withdraw items.] He checked the interface and it was easy to use, after inserting harvested wheat stalk. [Unprocessed Wheat: 2 g] [Appraisal level up] [Appraisal lv.5(locked)] His skills were mostly locked and it was time to search for another profession in the village. [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: White-haired Trash] [Profession: Farmer lv.3(423/10000)] [Space: Farm sub-space lv.1] [Stats: STR 1.3, AGI 1.15, END 1.95, INT 5, PER 30, CHA 0.7, ART 0.31] [Traits: Talentless, Genius, Hardworking, ??] [Skills] [General: Cleaning lv.max, Fieldwork lv.5(locked), Running lv.9(4577/10000), Throwing lv.6(44/2500)] [Fighting: JKD lv.4(542/10000), Unarmed fighting lv.2(1456/2500), Beginner Sword Mastery lv.2 (400/5000)] [PR: Sculpting lv.1(33/250), Farming lv.3(7333/10000)] He could snipe bird with rock right now. It became a little scary for him, the effect of 3 weeks of training was like this. Imagine if he trained for years with this kind of system. The beginner sword mastery was progressing slowly. ''I am stronger now, I could beat these retards, but they are not here.'' Local thugs were from a nearby village, and they were coming from time to work here. On villages like these, most people are related to each other. Aron was an outsider, you wouldn''t put outsider before your own family. The leader of the thugs was the nephew of a blacksmith, people ignored his mischief because of the position of his uncle. If you offend blacksmith, none will repair your tools or even some blacksmiths have connections to nobles so you could get a visit from some soldiers. ''After I take care of them, the people in the village will go after me. I need to learn as much as I can before that.'' 10 Lets Make a Bet! The first choice was going to the carpenter, Aron had already sculpted. The previous time, he was rejected due to his body state. This time, his body was stronger than average by a little margin so maybe, the carpenter will let him work. Roger didn''t need Aron on his farm anymore, although he didn''t chase him out. The carpenter was working on wooden planks and was pretty focused on his job. "Good morning." Aron greeted him and the person stopped the work immediately and looked at him. "Good morning, kid. What brings you here?" "The same reason as before. I am looking for work. The previous time, I was weak but this time it''s a different case." He appraised the carpenter. [Name: John] [Race: Human] [Profession: Carpenter] [Stats: STR 1, AGI 1.2, END 1, INT 0.8, PER 1, CHA 0.8, ART 1, DEX 1.4] [Traits: Calm, Greedy] [Talents: None] [Skills: Woodworking, Cooking, Cleaning, Unarmed fighting, Handiwork] ''He is pretty average in most of the stats. Little more agile than a normal person.'' "I am not sure, kid. You probably don''t know anything about my line of work. Just give up, stop wasting my time, kid." ''It won''t be easy, yet let''s rely on his greed.'' "Let''s make a bet. You will let me work for a week, and if after a week of work. I will be still useless, I will get you chicken from Roger. However, if I will be useful to you after week, you will let me work here and give me some planks. How does it sound?" John was greedy and getting chicken was a good deal. The boy will help him for free for the entire week, additionally, he will get chicken for free. "Ok, kid, your bet intrigued me. Don''t go back on your word. I don''t care how will you get this chicken." He exclaimed while dreaming about chicken''s meat, little of his saliva escaped his mouth. The woodworking wasn''t complicated in Aron''s eyes, the only thing he needed was to see it once and rest was repeating and perfecting the technique. They began to work, Aron was mostly moving things and doing the stupid task. John was actually shocked by the strength of this boy and his eyes sparkled. Having a strong person to carry around things for you wasn''t a bad deal. Aron observed and did mental notes after John left to eat. He picked up the saw and started repeating the procedures. It didn''t take long until skill was generated. [Woodworking skill was generated. Woodworking lv.0(1/100)] [Carpenter profession was generated. Do you wish to activate it?] ''Yes. It will be useful.'' The carpenter requirement of unlocking the profession was easier than a farmer. [Profession: Farmer lv.3(566/10000), Carpenter lv.0(1/5000)] ''The first level requires 5000... It will take some time to level up.'' [Carpenter] [Desc: The profession related to woodworking. Unlocks knowledge and woodworking related skills.] [Grade: Mortal] [Boost: DEX+0.1 per level.] ''DEX? Dexterity, not strength nor agility. Interesting.'' [Generating dexterity stat.] [Dexterity: 1.5] ''It''s even better than John''s. I am perfect for this job. HAHA'' ''Ohh, what''s this mortal grade.'' [Skills and profession related to mortal materials and the mortal world are graded mortal. There are higher grades but the host doesn''t need to know it yet.] During work, sometimes boy asked questions about some job and John answered most of them with annoyance. This allowed leveling up woodworking quite fast. It was the fifth day but John noticed that Aron is more than useful and said. "You win, kid. You can take a few planks but don''t take too much. It''s enough for today, I think we can discuss the terms of your working here." It was quite hard but he lost the bet and waiting to the full week would be useless. During these few days, Aron finished harvesting the farming area. At least, he didn''t need to move the crops to storage, this process could be done with thoughts and items teleported to the storage by the system. The new problem arose, the wheat needs to be processed into grains. The rest of the plant is mostly used to feed cattle. There are not many cattle in this village, it was weird. There are some plains in the west of the village. ''I need to visit the village chief, the problem is convincing him to teach me how to read and write.'' He started from repairing his hut, with some knowledge about carpentry. It wasn''t really hard. ''The entire design sucks but it''s more than enough for an ordinary villager. Many things can be improved but I won''t help these people. Only Rose and Roger deserve my attention and the rest of these people can go die.'' The carpentry wasn''t most important for him, so he promised to come once a week to work. Most important was to get recognition of the village, even if he didn''t care about these people much. They could teach him, some useful skills related to different things. Day after day, he visited many households and offered help. This time people didn''t chase him and accepted his assistance. Time to sow crops was slowly coming to end, so they became desperate. Despite his previous useless existence, he was actually better at sowing than many of them and thanks to him. They could finish sowing in time, some of them changed opinion about him and started to treat him like an insider. Thanks to slow acceptance, he learned how to handle animals on one of the farms. This experience was interesting for him as living animals are definitely more interesting than crops. There were few households without men, so he offered help for free. In exchange, some women taught him how to weave the clothes and cook. It was time to visit, the village chief. His reputation changed and the only blacksmith wasn''t talking to him. The house of the village chief was in the middle of the village. It had a big herbal garden around the building. Aron recognized some of these herbs and it would be nice to absorb them to space, yet he didn''t do it. He approached the doors and knocked. Old man with white hair and wrinkled face came out. "Good morning, the village chief." "Welcome, little Aron. What brings you here?" Asked curious old man. "I am very young and I like learning new things. Could you teach me how to read and write?" 11 The Trouble. "It''s not like I cannot teach you but I don''t have time. I need to gather enough herbs to dry them for the winter." The only way to preserve the plants was to dry them up. The winter was a dangerous time, it was time when people ate even less than they usually do. The bodies became weaker and it was easy to fall sick. Village chief as only one person skilled in herbalism was taking care of securing some supplies for winter. "If I help you, will you teach me?" It was a win-win situation if the chief refused it meant that it''s no problem of time, yet another case. "I can agree on, however, why do you want to learn how to write and read?" "Let''s get straight to the point. You know, this village doesn''t accept me, and I am planning to leave it someday." "You are wrong. Many villagers started complimenting you." Village chief hastily said. "It''s only temporary as I have a conflict with the family of the blacksmith and none would ever choose me over him." The expression of village chief changed to grim and said. "You are right! I won''t argue on that with you. I accept your proposition, so If you help me gather necessary herbs I will teach you." They talked and village head explained to him, what herbs are crucial and where can he find them. The biggest issue was going to the forest, he needs to convince the hunter to let him go with him. ''I cannot avoid Rose''s father anymore. His opinion of me is very low, it won''t be easy.'' ''Although, it''s a shame that herbs inside the village''s chief garden are not herbs that he is looking for'' The boy took some planks inside space and built there a threshing board. He had around 10 tonnes of wheat now. [Wheat straw.] He didn''t need a straw, and he could actually sow more wheat if he needed. The idea was to get rid of useless things. [Do you want to convert all wheat straw into WE?] ''Yes'' The straw before him disappeared and his WE rose by 234 points. [World Energy: 673] ''I have flax stored inside storage, I need to create some machines to process it into linen.'' He separated the area from space and started to build machines to process flax. The first was a flax''s ripple, flax break, and flax hatchel. The process wasn''t easy and it was mostly physical labor. Aron planned to automize most of the parts by wheels but not right now. The labor was good, it gave him experience in farming. [Farming lv.5(8000/50000)] [Farmer level up] [+1 Stat point +1 Skill point] ''OHhh my god! Can you explain to me, requirements of getting these points?'' [Most jobs will give 1 stat/skill point every 5 levels.] [Skill point forcibly raises the level of skill. All proficiency points will be gone.] [Stat point raises the chosen stat by 1. The effect will won''t be instant, some changes will happen to the host''s body in a few hours of time.] ''Strength and agility will be increased with time. I don''t care much about my appearance right now. The intelligence stat would let me use more of my potential but I think it won''t improve my performance by much. Art stat is weird, as it raises my artistic sense becoming better. I could actually go with it as I will improve dexterity with carpenter profession.'' He added a point into the art and felt decided to continue working on flax. After two days of hard work, the flax was turned into linen. ''I could trade with people using linen. Linen could be weaved into fine clothes and people wouldn''t ask about the origin of this linen.'' The boy approached the hut of one of the widows of the village. She was a middleaged woman that lost her husband because of sickness. The middle ages weren''t scary because of wars but of mortality of diseases. Simple flu could kill you, it was only because of the level of medicine. ''I will slowly take care of this. I will build my empire foundation on future''s knowledge and power of the system. HAHA'' He smiled and knocked into the door. "Good morning. Wow, where did you get so much linen?" The cultivation of this plant wasn''t popular yet, so bigger quantity was something weird. "I found some at plains. You see I have more at my hut, and I need a few clothes for myself and I can give you the rest. I think villagers would trade with you." "It''s too much!" He stopped her in the middle of the sentence. "I don''t give this to you for free. I want you to weave me the best clothes you can." He said and sighed. "You have two sons to feed. You won''t feed them with dignity or pride." It was the truth, the villagers might help her a little but they had their own families to feed too. The woman lacked wood and food for winter. There was time but she couldn''t leave her children for too long. "Ok, I will repay this favor someday. If I don''t my children will!" She said with sincerity and determination. There were two more families like this and Aron proposed the same deal to them. Some rumors will be spread in the village but he didn''t care. If anyone will try anything stupid, he will just beat them. A few days later. He thought that it was another day, after his training, he visited the Rose. "Hello. I am sorry, I promised that I will visit, but I was purposely avoiding it." Said Aron with a sad expression. "Hello, Aron. You have gotten bigger and stronger. Don''t be sorry. I know you recently worked hard." "Rumors spread faster than I thought" "It''s ok. I am happy for you." She said this with a smile on her face. "My capabilities are still too low but I promise you. Someday I will change the world for better!" "Hahaha. Besides of your muscles, your ability to brag improved too!" They were talking about many things. Rose was a really smart girl for her status. Actually, Aron liked her. Their conversation was interrupted. "Look, what we have here. Isn''t that famous white-haired trash?" It was actually a group of thugs that killed the previous owner of Aron''s body. "What do you want?" Asked Rose, she didn''t actually like them. Most of them, wasn''t reliable and they did the only mischief to the village and all of their crimes were covered because of the family''s relations blacksmith. "You see, I came personally to propose to you. Is your father home?" It was their leader, nephew of a blacksmith. "He isn''t here, leave!" Aron couldn''t stand this anymore. Those group of trash needed beating so much. "Idiot!" He shouted at the thug''s leader. "What did you say little shit?" "I said you needed so many people to beat me last time. I want you to fight me, one on one. You can refuse, cowards like you probably have no honor anyway." Aron mocked him, the man was trying to court the Rose, and he wouldn''t back down in her presence. "Ok, come at me. This time you won''t survive!" The man was already red from anger. "Rose, I will come back later. I need to clean some trash." He said it and left with a group of thugs. "HAHAHAHA. YOU ARE MORE RETARDED THAN WE THOUGHT. WE ARE FAR FROM VILLAGE NOW. IT''S YOUR DEATH DAY!" They started fighting, one of the thugs tried to punch him. He grabbed his fist and knocked him to the ground in one motion. The person tried to get up, yet the boy sent him to dream world in one kick. There were still four of them, they decided to attack at the same time. "That''s all you got? Do you still remember, when you taught me ''the pain''?" He was basically dodging all of their attack with ease. ''Flow like water and swift like the wind. Time to end this circus.'' "I learned it well. I want to show you all!" He began to trash them with his fists and legs. The JKD was martial arts created were created by combining street fighting experience with physics. It was simple but effective. "You see, I imagined this scene over and over. The feeling isn''t right. Do you still remember that night?" Aron''s voice became creepy when they heard that they were scared shitless. "Leave us, alone. My uncle won''t let you go. If you do anything to us!" Said leader of thugs with confidence. "Your uncle, you say? There won''t be a problem with him. Before, I left with you. I made sure that none knew that I left with you." "Even if they know. I will say, that you went to the forest. After beating me up." At this moment, he punched himself into the face. "Ok, talking is over! What time is it?" He asked the question while approaching them. "IT"S KILLING TIME!" He said and started to kill them one by one. He left their leader for the end. "Before, I send you to another world. I want to ask you one more thing." He lifted him and while looking straight into his eyes. "I didn''t do anything to you. Tell me, why did you fucking make my life worse than hell?" "bbbbbeeeacause...of Rose..." He mumbled something but Aron shouted at him. "Where are you might and strength now? TELL ME FUCKIN WHY?" It wasn''t simple anger anymore, it was the rage. "You won''t understand... YOU FUCKIN TRASH! YOU DON"T DESERVE TO LIVE! MY FATHER WILL AVENGE MY!" At this moment, Aron broke his neck. He sat on the ground and though. ''Hah... I thought it will bring satisfaction to me. There was little satisfaction for the moment. Although, the only thing left is emptiness.'' ''I felt your anger! I got revenge for you! From this moment, I don''t owe you anything !'' He killed people in his previous life but it wasn''t with his bare hands. The guns and other future weapons were different. This time, he slaughtered five people with his own hands. Little trace of guilt appeared on this face, but he couldn''t waste any more time. ''I will put them inside space and go back to my hut.'' [Quest Complete.] 12 Reward? [Quest Complete] [Quest Name: Sweet Revenge!] [Quest Goal: Get revenge on local thugs.] [Quest Reward: Greed sub-system] [Greed sub-system activated] [Skill Plunder generated. Plunder lv.1] [Skill Let''s Gamble! Generated. Let''s, Gamble! lv.1] ''???'' [Plunder lv.1] [Desc. : Allows to plunder up to one of the skill or talents of creatures killed by the host.] [Cap: None] [Let''s, Gamble! lv.1] [Desc. : Initiates the duel between parties and sides need to bet their stakes.] [Lv. Cap: None] ''I am tired...'' Before coming back to the village, he bumped into some trees to make his story about they beat him again more realistic. He was entered his hut and fell on the bed. A next day morning. As he predicted, people came to ask about their whereabouts. Rose couldn''t hide the truth. She wasn''t person lying to her family and friends. Knock! Knock! "Aron, are you inside?" One of the villagers asked. "Hi. What''s up?" He opened the door, his appearance was pitiful. It didn''t hurt him at all, but he faked pained expression. "Did you see, blacksmith''s nephew and his friends?" "Look at me! They beat me until I passed out yesterday. Fuckers... I got beaten and you all are worried about them. Leave..." They were aware of the personality of these people and didn''t talk to Aron anymore. ''Good luck with searching! They won''t suspect me, anymore.'' He closed the door with the key and entered his farm space. The bloody bodies were lying there. ''I hope, I get used to this feeling. I shouldn''t be sad about cleaning trash.'' He appraised these people. [Name: Joe] [Title: Neighborhood Bully!] [Profession: Apprentice Blacksmith.] [Talents: None] [Traits: Talentless, Stupid, Envious, Degenerate, Lazy, ] [Skills: Smelting, Farming, Running] [Name: Tom] [Title: Joe''s Loyal Lapdog.] [Profession: Farmer] [Talents: Bow(Low Mortal)] [Traits: Loyal, Stupid, Degenerate] [Skills: Archery, Farming, Cooking, Cleaning, Fieldwork] [Name: Harry] [Profession: Hunter] [Talents: None] [Traits: Eagle Eyes, Talentless, Stupid, Degenerate] [Skills: Archery, Tracking, Sneaking, Dismantling] The rest of them were below average. [Plundered Skill: Smelting lv.0(0/1000)] [Plundered Talent: Bow(Mortal Low)] [Plundered Trait: Eagle Eyes] ''It''s a shame I take more skills from them. They wouldn''t need them anyway.'' He felt pain in his eyes, the vision blurred for a moment and his sigh improved by many folds. ''Sigh of the eagle. Heh, and still being trash''s dog.'' His eyes still hurt, it was weird. Most of the systems changes were fast and pain would fade after a moment but this time it was different. [Host shouldn''t complain. Host DNA got altered and it will some time until the body will come to it''s the normal state.] [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: Weird kid] [Profession: Farmer lv.5(1/50000), Carpenter lv.1(300/10000)] [Talents: Bow(Low Mortal)] [Traits: Eagle''s Eyes, Genius, Hardworking] [Spaces: Farming sub-space lv.1] [World Energy: 186] [Skills] [General: Cleaning lv.max, Fieldwork lv.5(locked), Running lv.9(4577/10000), Throwing lv.7(73/5000), Handiwork lv.2(333/500), Appraisal lv.5(locked)] [Fighting: JDK lv.6(32/50000), Unarmed fighting lv.3(4744/5000), Beginner Sword Mastery lv.2(4567/5000)] [Profession rel. : Farming lv.5(8000/50000), Sculpting lv.2(34/500), Woodworking lv.4(444/1000), Cooking lv.1(234/1000), Weaving lv.0(34/100), Smelting lv.0(0/1000), Animal Handling lv.1(344/1000)] ''What happened to my World energy?'' [The plundering has always a price. Changes in the host''s body are done on the genetic level. The system uses in this process.] ''What if I don''t have enough WE to plunder something?'' [It will be added to the database and it will be added to the host body after host gathers sufficient amount of WE] ''I need gather more WE. I didn''t think much about how many things can be converted. Let''s do some tests!'' ''Can I convert corpses into WE?'' [It''s possible, you can convert only dead into WE. You cannot convert living people. The system has an additional rule, the being killed by the host will give 100% of WE and others will give 10% of the original value.] ''That''s stupid. Both things are the same.'' [The same but different. Your game is your loot, someone''s game is stolen loot.] ''Game logic... What the hell'' He converted the bodies of these people. The amount of world energy for every one of them was something around 30 to 50. [World Energy: 323] Although he wasn''t living in Roger''s house, visiting him was something natural. Today, Roger was more gloomy than usually. Aron didn''t know the cause, Roger certainly didn''t care about a bunch of scum so what''s wrong. "Roger, I see that something is wrong. It''s disturbing that you don''t complain and shout at me as usual" Aron was concerned about this old man. The survival without Roger would be hard. "Kid, I don''t want to talk about it. Just go and do your things." "You can always talk to me. I will listen and help if needed." "Ok, kid if you put this way. Let me tell you something. A few years ago, I had a wife and child, yet one day they were taken from me." "I don''t understand. Who took your family from you?" "These fucking bandits! I won''t forgive myself. I was hunting on that day. When I came back, the only thing I found was the body of my wife. You won''t ever understand. Feeling of lose and helplessness." Aron remembered the time when he lost Alice in his previous life. "The pain will never go away. Nothing can erase this pain.Revenge is useless as it won''t bring the dead back. There is no way to get back, what''s already lost" He said that with a feeling of melancholy and turned around to leave. "If you want to learn, how to become hunter come here at dawn," Roger said with weak voice. Aron wasn''t wandering around the village as he felt sad. ''I cannot forget you, Alice. Why did you leave me?'' A few moments later. ''It can''t continue like this! I need to go forward! FOR HER!'' The bow was almost repaired, although he wasn''t the best bow maker. He could actually copy this design. Next day dawns. The boy came to Roger and waited for him. Roger opened the door and invited him inside. "Before, we start. I want to ask, you some questions." "Ok" "Did you kill these idiots?" Roger asked straight away, the question was hard. If he answered honestly. There was a risk of Roger exposing him. ''Whatever, if he exposes me. I will leave the village.'' "Yes, I killed all of them and got rid of their bodies." The Roger''s face had a weird expression, but he smiled and said. "You know, a day after they disappearance you came here. I could smell death from you. I know that they deserved this but remember one thing. Lives are important and even lives of scum. If you lose your morality, you will end up becoming a monster." "I know, Roger. There is something wrong in your sentence. Their lives did more evil than good. They were a disease with only one cure." "Let''s not talk about this matter anymore. Your secrets will be safe with me. I am grateful that you trusted me with this matter." 13 Hunters Training. Roger took opened the small wooden crate inside his room. He took quiver and arrows and took a bow from Aron. He set up the small training area in a few minutes and started instructing Aron. It was different from normal archery. Hunter''s archery focused on mobility and penetration as wild animals wouldn''t stop after being hurt. They would attack even with an arrow inside they head if it didn''t pierce their brains. "Enough of basics. Every hunter should personally craft their bow. It''s a tradition in my family, after retiring we store bows in a special place. As you know, my bow was broken and you repaired it." Aron already knew the process of bow making but Roger explained how to personalize size and other key parts of the bow. Aron decided to make a bow, bigger and stronger than Roger''s bow. His strength and endurance will grow and using ordinary bow wasn''t the case. ''The widows are good at making clothes, they are slow as they don''t use machines or looms.'' He decided to form cooperation with these women. ''It''s good to deal as I cannot focus on learning to weave for now.'' The most problematic part was finding the right materials, wooden bow with great strength and flexibility. ''Hickory is very rare in this forest and carpenter won''t give it to me for free. I need to trade with him.'' "Hi, John." "Hello, what do you want a kid?" "I need Hickory wood. Do you have some?" "I do. It''s won''t be cheap though." "Can I trade for it with linen?" "How much do you have?" "Enough to make a set of clothes." "Interesting, I will comply with your offer." After getting his wood, he created bow''s body and string. The process did take him almost two days and he finally was ready to learn to use the bow. [Skill Hunter''s Archery was generated. Hunter''s Archery lv.0(1/250)] [Name: Hunter''s Archery lv.0(1/250)] [Desc: Archery developed by hunter''s family, focuses on mobility and penetration. It''s different than normal military archery as it neglects postures and lets user shoot from any posture.] [Level cap: 15] [Skill Beginner bow mastery generated. Beginner bow mastery lv.0(1/1000)] [Level cap: 10] There were only 2 months left to the end of the spring, and he needed to get some herbs from the forest before summer. In the worst case scenario, he will sneak into village chief hut and steal a little number of dried herbs to generate them inside of farming space. He focused on training the bow for a week. At least he wanted too, but he needed to make arrows himself, so his woodworking improved along with it. When his arms couldn''t shoot anymore, he sculpted. [Woodworking lv.6(754/5000)] [Carpenter lv.2(3678/25000)] [Sculpting lv.4(1996/2500)] [Beginner bow mastery lv.3(5433/10000)] [Hunter''s Archery lv.4(4954/5000)] Having the talent in the bow, made it a lot easier to improve. Talent + system meant the ultimate cheat. He considered hunting the talents to get their talents and become stronger at a fast pace. Another thing was that he started to neglect his farming space. ''His time was limited and list of skills to grind was growing.'' ''The combination of running and hunter''s archery made him more dangerous.; [Hunter''s Archery level up! Hunter''s Archery lv.5(locked)] ''Skill became locked, that''s problematic. I need to talk with Roger.'' Roger was at his farm plucking weeds. The boy approached him and asked. "Master, I encountered a problem with my practice." "What''s wrong? It''s been the only week and you already cannot improve? Maybe being a hunter isn''t for you." Aron became little angry, and took a bow from his bow and started circling around Roger while shooting arrow after arrow. He shot next to Roger''s head and crotch. "KID, STOP I BELIEVE YOU!" He collapsed on his knees and said. "You are fast and accurate. Few inches of and I would become a eunuch." "Can you help me?" Asked Aron with hope. "No. However, I have some good news for you. We need to go to the forest to proceed with learning." Roger said this word with an annoyed voice. "We will go tomorrow at dawn. Be ready." Aron decided to grind the sculpting before the dusk. His art stat increased to 1,9 due improvement of his sculpting. He became more sensible to art, thus the world became different. New ideas on how to improve his surroundings came into his mind. ''It''s gonna be annoying in the future.'' He finished another little sculpture of an animal. This time he decided to sculpt the dog. [Sculpting level up!] [Sculptor profession unlocked. Do you wish to activate?] ''Do I? ...? Yes..'' [Sculptor lv.0(0/500)] [Level cap: 10] [Boost: 0.1 ART, 0.1 CHA] ''Boosting Charisma. I won''t be ugly anymore! HAhaha.'' [Handiwork level up. Handiwork lv.5(locked)] [Do you wish to fuse Handiwork and Fieldwork into talent?] ''Their level cap is bigger. Why should I fuse them into talent?'' He pondered for a moment these two skills, improved techniques of work in these places. Although, it had a lot of potentials. Talents were way more OP. ''Whatever. Do it!'' [Fieldwork and Handiwork fused into trait Adaptable] [Name: Adaptable] [Desc: Ability to adapt to many different kinds of situation. Allows the user to improve the efficiency of doing different things.] ''It will be a good help in future.'' [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: Weird kid] [Stats: STR 1.5, AGI 1.25, END 2.05, INT 5, CHA 0.7, PER 30, ART 1.9, DEX 1.7] [Profession: Sculptor lv.0, Carpenter lv.2(3678/25000), Farmer lv.5(1/5000)] [Talents: Bow(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Adaptable, Eagle''s Eyes, Genius, Hardworking,??] [Spaces: Farming Space lv.1] [Skills] [General: Cleaning lv.max, Running lv.max, Throwing lv.7(73/5000), Plunder lv.1, Let''s Gamble! lv.1, Appraisal lv.5(Locked)] [Fighting: JKD lv.5(3256/25000), Unarmed Fighting lv.3(55/5000), Beginner Sword Mastery lv.2(4567/5000), Beginner Bow Mastery lv.3(5745/10000), Hunter''s Archery lv.5(locked)] [P.R.: Sculpting lv.5(1/5000), Smelting lv.0(0/1000), Weaving lv.0(33/100), Cooking lv.1(234/1000), Farming lv.5(8000/50000, Animal Handling lv.1(443/1000)] 14 The First Hunt. Dawn of a new day. Both of them were ready to go. The forest was around 1 hour of walk from the village in the north. The village was actually middle of nowhere and it wasn''t joking. The closest city was 2 weeks to walk from here. The area around was actually not very fertile and crops wouldn''t yield much. The villagers didn''t have many cattle so plains weren''t used either. This place was ideal for herding but cattle must be expensive in this world. They finally reached the forest, the lecture began. The hunters mostly relied on three main skills in the forest. These were tracking, stealth and setting traps. Most of them caught, the small animals like hares or quails. There were times that you could hunt boar or deer, however, this kind of hunt was dangerous and sometimes price was bigger than the game. The high perception with the help of Eagle''s eyes made tracking easy. The range of his sight was very big and while Roger was using the trails to track the prey. Aron was looking around and could see it from afar. ''I won''t pick this skill if I continue to rely on my eyes like this.'' The boy started to search for trails and focused his entire attention on it. [Tracking skill generated. Tracking level.0(1/50)] They decided to track a deer. They followed its tray for around for an hour. The deer was tens of meters away from them. ROAR! They heard a very loud roar. Roger became extremely cautious and said. "Fast! Climb the tree." Aron didn''t hesitate and jumped on the tree. Roger did the same and both of them stopped moving. The deer didn''t know in which way to run. It was a futile anyway because something appeared with high speed and ripped deer''s head off. Aron decided to appraise it. [Name: Female Black-eyed Demon Wolf.] [Desc. Pack spiritual beast with black eyes. It''s extremely fast and it loves to rip off heads of its prey.] [Stats:????] [Traits: High regeneration, Demonic Eyes, High-density muscles, Predator, ??] [Skills: Berserk, Charge, Highspeed running, Call for help, ???] ''It must be rumored beast, we are only on outskirts, and we can already meet something of this level. They didn''t lie about the danger lurking in the forest.'' The beast took its prey and left. Roger, signaled that it''s time to climb down. "What was that?" Asked Aron with a curious look. "I don''t know its name, yet I would rather not mess with this beast." Roger was terrified and looked into the eyes of Aron. "When you ever encounter it alone. Never ever try to attack it. I don''t know if you are aware, it was aware of our presence, but we were useless for it. No meat, no fun. Just remember it, kiddo" After this, he showed him how to set up traps and how to move around without prey noticing him. [Skill Traps generated. Traps lv.0(1/50)] [Skill Stealth lv.0 generated. Stealth lv.0(1/50)] "I was taken by my father to the forest like you. After teaching me basics, he gave me a test to hunt something. You know what?" He asked and Aron didn''t know what to say. "I failed miserably. I didn''t even track anything properly. So don''t worry if you fail to hunt in your first hunts. I will come with you until you be ready to hunt something on your own. The only important thing is to be cautious and careful in the forest." Aron looked around him and saw boar few hundreds of meters from them. "I have found a trail. Follow me." He said and started sneaking around using stealth. After he found a clear position to shoot, he stood up and whispered. "It''s not actually a part of your lessons, so I hope you are not mad at me." He stood up and took weird posture and pulled the string to its limits. The part of an inch more and the bow would break. Roger looked at him with confusion. Swish! Screech! Thud! "Gotcha!" Roger was shocked, did this boy sniped animal from more than a hundred meters away. "Come, it''s dead already!" Aron said and started approaching the position of his prey. A half minute later, they were next to a few hundred kilograms boar that was lying on the ground with arrows inside of his skull. "I don''t believe it... You killed it like it was nothing." "How do we bring this back to the village?" Aron couldn''t expose his space to the Roger, so he wanted to know how normal hunters dealt with such heavy prey. "We need to dismantle it into smaller parts and carry it." The Roger took his dismantling knife out and started to demonstrate the process of dismantling. After skinning the boar, he handed the knife to the boy. The hardest part was actually cut in the right places or you would actually waste precious meat. Aron wasted some meat before getting the skill. [Skill Dismantling generated. Dismantling lv.0(1/500)] Aron took out some rope and created an improvised backpack. Thanks to that, they would leave only the most useless parts. Roger was a really strong man, even if he was old now. He could carry more than a hundred kilograms of meat on his back and walk at a normal pace. Aron prepared his backpack and said. "You can start walking, I will gather these herbs over there for the village chief." He pointed at red flowers far from them and said. "Ok, kiddo. I will slowly walk to the village. I will wait for you at the outskirts." Aron went toward the flowers and saw Roger leaving slowly. He waited until Roger is far enough and absorbed the most of the flowers and started running around absorbing all necessary things. [New plant detected..] [...] He inserted the rest of the boar inside the space and put the backpack on his bag and started walking toward the Roger. His pack was loaded with more than 150 kg of raw meat. It was heavy as hell, yet his point was to create a scene of coming back to the village with a great game. ''I need more time, to find all things for village chief.'' It was regretful, this time he wouldn''t finish this quest. After 3 hours of a walk, they reached the village, heavy loads of meat attracted the attention of villagers. John approached Roger and said. "I thought you retired from hunting..." Before he finished the sentence Roger cut him off and said. "I did. I was only instructing, the new generation." John looked around and saw Aron, however, he couldn''t believe that''s the same brat that cheated him out of wood. He tried to find another person... "Don''t look, your first guess was right it''s this little brat. Meet new hunter in our village, Aron." 15 The New Identity. Some in the village were happy to have a new hunter. Hunters brought meat and furs to the village, yet there were people that doubted the skill of Aron and didn''t accept him as a hunter. Blacksmith Bill blamed the disappearance of his nephew on him, so he used his authority to make his life harder. ''Heh. Whatever... Someday, you will regret your decisions.'' Although he didn''t get profession he could go hunt inside the forest. It allowed him to get new plants and herbs for the village chief. Most of the meat was traded with villagers for other things useful for him. The planks from the John, nails and some ores, some meat went to widowed women. This world was currently in the Bronze age, so the most metallic things are still bronze. His relationship with blacksmith was bad, so he couldn''t ask about this. [Quest complete.] [Quest name: Prove yourself!] [Quest goal: Prove your worth to the village.] [Reward: Faction system,1 stat point] [Faction: Amber village(Unofficial Hunter)] ''STAT POINT! HELL YEAH'' His choice was to improve agility, he could go with intelligence or strength though but during exploration of the forest, these stats would be useful, yet not useful as flexibility and good pair of legs. Aron was walking towards his hut, his body was a little tired so he decided to rest for a while. When he was nearing his hut, he heard someone calling him. "Hey, kid wait." It was the father of Rose. The strongest hunter in the village as he wasn''t hunter yet and Roger retired. [Name: Casper] [Title: The Black Arrow.] [Faction: Amber Village(Hunter), ??] [Race: Human] [Age: 32] [Stats: STR 1.4, AGI 1.7, END 1.8, INT 1.9, PER 1.8, CHA 1.3, DEX 2] [Talent: Bow(Mortal-Medium)] [Traits: Eagle''s eyes, Fast hands, Sniper] [Skills: Military Archery, Medium Bow Mastery, Cooking, Animal Handling, Dismantling, Stealth, Traps, Beginner Sword Mastery] The boy stopped and walked to him. "Hello, is there something I can help you with?" He asked politely. "I heard, you became a hunter. You are young and inexperienced. Don''t mess around in the forest. Although, I don''t like you. You can come to me and ask for pieces of advice. " He wasn''t polite, yet he wanted to actually show his seniority to Aron. "Don''t cause trouble for my daughter. I will find you, and beat you up!" The last sentence was creepy, and he didn''t joke about this part. Aron planned his time, from dawn to 1 PM, he was hunting and exploring the forest at least parts described as safe by Roger. From 1 PM to 4 PM he was sculpting as it could actually count as woodworking, so he was improving 2 professions at the same time. Lastly, from 4 PM to the dusk, he was training fighting techniques from sword to JKD. From dusk to early night, he decided to work on his farming space. A next day, he went back to the forest. He did focus on grinding his hunter skills and picked all the plants around him. The boost in agility didn''t make him only faster, the most important thing was his body could actually keep up with his perception. His brain was limiting his perception because his eyes and body wouldn''t able to do anything with so many details. He gathered some herbs into the bag and decided to not hunt anything today. If he brought something every day, it would be too suspicious. The time was almost up, so the boy decided to leave the forest. In last moment, he spotted hare around 200 meters from him. It was small and fluffy hair. It aroused his interest. The rabbits were known for their great fertility and fast breeding. Hares weren''t domesticated as rabbits but their fertility was similar. ''I should try to catch hare and try to domesticate it.'' The hare wasn''t aware of his presence, so he observed it and even appraised it. [Name: Grey Hare] [Gender: Female] [Age: 5 months] [Stats: STR 0.3, AGI 1.4, END 2.4] [Traits: Strong Legs, Fluffy fur] [Skills: Leap, Fast Running] [Fluffy] [Desc: Rare mutation in DNA made its fur fluffier than others] ''...'' He decided to catch it, he was faster than it and after sneaking close to it. He caught it, the investing in agility, made him faster than this hare. After getting it, he immediately entered the space with it inside his hands. [Animal form detected. Scanning... Adding to the database.] [Requirements for creating the ranch space are not met. Space won''t be created.] ''What are the requirements?'' [Requirements: 5000 WE, ??, Getting animal inside the personal space(MET)] [World Energy: 234] The hare was still struggling inside his hands. He set it frees inside the space and left. ''Ranch space. Interesting! This should be related to Animal handling skill. The problem is my lack of animals. Although I can help villagers with their animals this isn''t effective.'' He returned to the village and delivered a big bag of herbs to the chief. "You did, great. All herbs are in good state and you didn''t destroy roots. I can try to replant them in my garden." Chief was happy, herbs were important as food and clothing to the village. "I made my mind. You can come to me to learn how to read and write." "Thank you, chief. I won''t disappoint you." Aron said happily and left. It was time for sculpting, he didn''t need to trade for wood anymore. He bought ax and was getting logs from the forest and putting them into space. Professional knowledge that he got from carpenter profession allowed him to choose the best trees to be chopped. His sculpting was actually relaxing work, the most important was skill grinding and profession grinding. [Sculptor level up. Sculptor lv.1(1/1000)] [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: Weird kid] [Stats: STR 1.5, AGI 2.25, END 2.05, INT 5, CHA 0.8, PER 30, ART 2, DEX 1.7] [Profession: Sculptor lv.1(1/2500), Carpenter lv.2(3678/25000), Farmer lv.5(1/5000)] [Talents: Bow(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Adaptable, Eagle''s Eyes, Genius, Hardworking, ??] [Spaces: Farming Space lv.1] [World Energy: 236] [Skills] [General: Cleaning lv.max, Running lv.max, Throwing lv.7(73/5000), Plunder lv.1, Let''s Gamble! lv.1, Appraisal lv.5(Locked)] [Fighting: JKD lv.5(3256/25000), Unarmed Fighting lv.3(55/5000), Beginner Sword Mastery lv.2(4567/5000), Beginner Bow Mastery lv.3(6745/10000), Hunter''s Archery lv.5(locked)] [P.R.: Sculpting lv.5(1344/5000), Smelting lv.0(0/1000), Weaving lv.0(33/100), Cooking lv.1(234/1000), Farming lv.5(8000/50000), Animal Handling lv.1(533/1000), Dismantling lv.2(456/500), Stealth lv.2(1444/2500), Tracking lv.max, Traps lv.1(42/100)] 16 The Expansion of the Space. Training the sword became a little pleasant because he began to understand the basics, and he knew that with every level his cut will be stronger. [Beginner Sword Mastery Level up. lv.3(1/10000)] There were many things to practice, and he decided to practice Bow as it will be easier to grind. Bow talent was letting him get a better understanding of technique and leveling up was fast. [Beginner Bow Mastery Level Up. lv.4(1/25000)] Next was throwing and martial arts. Throwing was quite powerful as he could actually use anything as his ammunition. Range and power were related to Strength, although it could be compensated by techniques to some extent. His practice actually didn''t give him level up, yet the only thing he needs is time. [Throwing lv.5(4100/5000)] [JKD lv.5(6433/25000)] [Unarmed Fighting lv.3(4222/5000)] His database had 9 trees and many plants, he selected some space as a berry planting area. The problem was actually, hare running around that didn''t know what to do as this place had no exit. ''I cannot let you just run around here. I need to get you a cage.'' In a few moments, he builds the cage for hare and caught it as it was already tired from running. He closed it, the hare was in a weird state. Wild animals were getting crazy from being imprisoned. There were two choices now, cage it or kill it. ''If it causes trouble, I will finish its misery.'' He caged it and gave it some grass and wheat then focused on his job on fields. The first to plant were berries. During his exploration, the boy found two species of berries bilberry and blackberry. After two hours of planting, he received the notification. [Farming Space level up] [Space Size: 2,2 ha] [Time acceleration: 11 Times] [Host''s WE generation: 3 per hour.] [Entry limit:5] [Farming Space Level up] [Space Size: 4,4 ha] [Time acceleration: 12 Times] [Host''s WE generation: 5 per hour.] [Entry limit: 10] [New functions unlocked: Automatic Farming lv.1] [Automatic Farming lv.1] [Desc: System will plant/harvest plants automatically.] [Speed: 0.5] [Host skill multiplier: 0.5] ''Will I get proficiency for this?'' [Yes, it''s 5% of the original amount at the first level.] ''What about processing the plants?'' [This function isn''t available yet.] ''It will be in the future, that''s quite good.'' He thought about his berries space and though. ''What about berries?'' [The fruits will be harvested and bushes will be left intact. For example, Blackberries fruits will be harvested once every week after the plant reaches adulthood. Beware plant, lifespan is around 50 years so it will die after 4 years. This time will change as time acceleration increases.] ''So my blueberries will be stored inside of storage. Will, they deteriorate there?'' [The time inside storage space is stopped.] ''Time control, I wonder if I can use it myself someday.'' [It''s hard to reach but possible.] ''I have still had some time before going to sleep. So let''s sculpt more.'' His art stat allowed him, make good sculptures out of wood. He decided to sculpt the Black-eyed Demon wolf. The key part was to imagining its appearance and locking this into his mind. The hour passed and a piece of wood looked closer and closer to his goal. Finally, in the middle of the night, he finished the sculpture. [Sculpting level up. Sculpting lv.6(234/10000)] [Sculptor level up. Sculptor lv.2(30/5000)] [Woodworking level up. Woodworking lv.7(422/10000)] ''I have cheat space unlimited food supply." The sculpture of the wolf wasn''t big, yet it was almost a masterpiece. For ordinary people, it was already a masterpiece. However, his artistic sense was growing so there was always imperfect and something could be improved. He organized the fields plan for space and his farming was improving now, even if he slept. Another thing was the infinite amount of grains. He set a limit of everything at 10 tones and rest will be converted to world energy. It was more than enough to feed the entire village until next harvest inside the space. Next day, he decided to trade with villagers for real animals. He couldn''t get a cow, but people were ready to give up pigs, chickens, and sheep. The problem was they wanted a big amount of meat. He decided to start with pig and built the small fence and sowed the grass inside. The only thing missing now is the meat for exchange. They insisted that it must be at least half of its weight. ''Deer? Boar? Few hares or quails?'' The forest was always interesting for him and the possibility of going deeper was tempting. Space could be used as a trump card, yet he needed to actually enter it. The black-eyed demon wolf was too fast for him to react. He decided to set some traps and analyze the flora of this forest even more. He couldn''t find any new deciduous tree in the safe area. It wasn''t like he explored the entire area, however, his time was limited and the perimeter was too wide. [Traps lv.5(locked)] [Stealth lv.5(locked)] Today''s game was 2 hares and quail. [Hare] [Traits: Strong legs, Weak Heart] [Skills: Leap] [Hare] [Traits: Strong legs, Weak Poison Resistance(Mortal)] [Quail] [Traits: Malformed wings] [Skills: Hiding] ''I think quail was easily domesticated in my previous world. I should try, with another one.'' This quail had malformed wings, it survived only by developing hiding skill. It was unlucky, to step into one of Aron''s traps. ''I want to know costs and effects on my body of plundering the traits Strong legs and Weak poison resistance.'' [Strong legs] [Desc: Host''s leg muscle and bone structure will be improved. Host will be able to jump faster and legs will be able to resist fall from higher places. Remember that only legs are stronger and rest of the skeleton will remain the same.] [Cost: 200] [Weak poison Resistance(Mortal)] [Desc: Host will be resistant to weak poisons.] [Cost: 60] [Hiding] [Desc: Hiding technique, it allows hiding in many places.] [Cost: 20] His world energy was low at this moment. The system is using most of it to farm. [WE: 32] He added hiding into his skills and the two other traits into a database for later. The carcasses were tied to his back. It was time to go back and learn how to read and write. On his way back he found some spruce trees. [Hidden requirement met] [Adding the Forest Area to personal space] [Time acceleration: 2xFSTA(Farm Space-Time Acceleration)] [Size: 4 times Farm Area Size] [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: Weird kid] [Stats: STR 1.5, AGI 2.25, END 2.05, INT 5, CHA 0.9, PER 30, ART 2.1, DEX 1.7] [Profession: Sculptor lv.3(1/5000), Carpenter lv.2(9678/25000), Farmer lv.5(1333/5000)] [Talents: Bow(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Adaptable, Eagle''s Eyes, Genius, Hardworking, ??] [Spaces: Farming Area lv.3, Forest Area lv.1] [World Energy: 12] [Skills] [General: Cleaning lv.max, Running lv.max, Throwing lv.7(4100/5000), Plunder lv.1, Let''s Gamble! lv.1, Appraisal lv.5(Locked)] [Fighting: JKD lv.5(6433/25000), Unarmed Fighting lv.3(4222/5000), Beginner Sword Mastery lv.3(1/10000), Beginner Bow Mastery lv.4(1/25000), Hunter''s Archery lv.5(locked)] [P.R.: Sculpting lv.6(234/10000), Smelting lv.0(0/1000), Weaving lv.0(33/100), Cooking lv.1(234/1000), Farming lv.5(18000/50000), Animal Handling lv.1(533/1000), Dismantling lv.2(456/500), Stealth lv.5(Locked), Tracking lv.5(Locked), Traps lv.5(Locked), Woodworking lv.7(422/10000), Hiding lv.0(1/250)] [Plunder database: Strong Legs, Weak Poison Resistance(Mortal)] 17 Village Chief. He visited the villager Frank that agreed on exchange for meat. "Good morning, Frank." "Good morning, young hunter. Did you come to exchange for our Brenda?" "That''s right. I came to show you my offer. If you don''t agree, I will try to get something more." The boy showed him, two hares and quail. Frank was interested but was hesitating a little. "What do you think?" Aron asked with indifferent voice. "Are furs part of the deal?" Frank asked with a shy voice. It was a little funny for Aron. "That''s right. I can even dismantle it for you!" ''I don''t care about the value of this. I just want that pig.'' "No. Deal is good. I don''t need you to dismantle it." "Ok, then here. Take it." Aron passed his game to Frank. They went to hut and he tied pig and passed the rope to the Aron. The boy took the rope and tied all legs of it and started carrying it. "Thank you, for business." Frank watched him leaving with a sad expression. He thought that the pig will be killed. The only reason, he agreed to trade was he couldn''t feed his family anymore. The pig was malnourished and man couldn''t watch her suffering anymore. Aron brought the pig into his hut and closed the door. The pig was terrified, Aron was hunter and animals could feel the danger from him. [Brenda(Sow)] [Traits: Malnourished, Gluttonous] ''You don''t have any skills, your owner was starving and you are glutton.'' They entered the space, it became huge after adding forest area. Forest area was empty for now, it didn''t matter for now. He checked on fluffy hare that was inside the cage. It refused to eat, yet hunger started to take over his wild pride. The pig was put inside a new fence, and he brought her some wheat in a wooden container. He untied it and closed the fence. "It''s ok. You can eat to your full here. Hahaha!" He laughed and left. The pig was watching food and slowly started to dig into it. The happy expression appeared on its face and devoured the entire container. Aron prepared some straw as pig bed, pig though it''s food and ate it. ''I hope it won''t eat the wooden fence!'' The trace of worry appeared on his face. He threw more straw to the pig and left the space. It was time to visit the village chief. The village chief was taking care of his plants, and he was happy when Aron came. "Good morning, chief. I came to study. Are you available right now?" "Hello. Little Aron, let me finish plucking these weeds, and we can start the lessons." "I can help you." He said and approached the garden. "That would be good. Thank you in advance." Aron was already an expert in plucking the weeds. What would take a chief entire day, he did in a few minutes. The chief was shocked and looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. "Ok, come to the hut. I will start teaching." The main language of this kingdom was Aderish, the language of Adea empire. It wasn''t anything like earth''s languages, at least the languages that he knew of. The few hours of explaining and the boy could write simple sentences. In his previous life, he had something called perfect memory. Although in this life, his brain wasn''t so good, he could remember a few hundred symbols after a few hours. This language had weird grammar and it took him the longest time to learn them. He didn''t have a paper to practice on. He practiced on a stone tablet, the chief explained to him that most of the people use the skin like parchment. After a few hours, he left and practiced inside of his space. Before night, he mastered reading and writing. [Reading skill generated. Reading lv.0(1/500)] [Writing skill generated. Writing lv.0(1/500)] [Quest complete] [Quest Name: Reader!] [Reward: Library] The next to the storage building, another building appeared. It was a giant library. ''Wow. I wonder what''s the use of this building.'' [Welcome to the library! The biggest fortress of knowledge in this universe.] [Put your hand on the touch screen if you want to exchange knowledge.] He approached the touch pad and followed instructions. [Welcome to Library Exchange Center. What do you want to do?] [1. Do you wish to measure the price of the knowledge you are offering?] [2. Do you wish to search for a certain book or information?] [3. Do you wish to check your account?] ''1'' [What knowledge price do you want to check?] [(Cleaning), (Running), Custom input] ''Cleaning'' [Price for this knowledge is 5 points do you want to exchange your knowledge?] ''Why not? Yes'' He inputted agreement with his thoughts. [Unknown user. To exchange knowledge you need to register first. Do you wish to register?] ''Yes'' [Type your username for future transactions.] ''Marcus'' [Welcome, Marcus! Do you wish to proceed with the previous transaction?] ''Yes'' [5 points added. Your current balance is 105 points.] ''I want to check my user account.'' [Username: Marcus] [Balance: 105] [Knowledge level: 0] [Contribution: Cleaning] ''Where did I get 100 points?'' [The current balance is 105 points. 5 points for contributing the cleaning knowledge and 100 points for opening branch of the library!] ''Ohh, so there is no other library in this world.'' ''I want to see what kind of information or book, can I get for 105 points.'' [The user Marcus has a level of knowledge 0. The available books and information in the price range are:] [Argonis''s Recipe Book volume 1] [Desc: Book containing recipes of the expert of metallurgy. The volume contains knowledge for 0 level users.] [Bestiary of Indiri] [Contains descriptions of the beast from Indiri planet in Gurrea star system.] [...] ''Most of these books are useless for current me. Metallurgy''s book is useful. I will buy it later and check the recipes.'' ''Ohh, can I get book version of my cleaning knowledge?'' [This function is not available for level 0 users.] After this, he left the Library and decided to train. 18 The Ranch. He was feeding the pig daily and his skill grew slowly. The hare started to eat, however, in his presence, it was going crazy. After two days the passive grinding started to show the results. [Farmer level up. Farmer lv.6(1/10000)] [Farming lv.5(33455/50000)] ''A few more days and I will get another level in the profession. If I worked by myself I would get at least two levels. It''s still better as I have more time to train and do other things.'' He prepared more cages and decided to catch some wild animals in the forest. His first target was actually a quail. The tricky part was that it could fly, it was enough to escape from most of the predators. It was chirping happily while eating a bug, boy was trying to get close to as close as possible without getting noticed. Suddenly, he sprinted towards the bird with his high agility and running speed bonus, his speed soared to unbelievable speed. The boy was careful and fast but the bird noticed him in the last moment and started to fly. It wasn''t best, yet it came with the strategy of flying on the tree. ''NO, YOU WON''T ESCAPE!'' He screamed inside his mind and tried to catch it. ''Succes! Oh no!'' BANG! He slammed with his body at the tree. "FUCK! YOU STUPID BIRD." The pain wasn''t high, however, feeling being almost tricked by a bird was humiliating. The quail wasn''t even struggling. It was caught, so in most of the cases, it would be dead. Seeing anger from its aggressor. It closed the eyes and played dead. ''Don''t you dare play dead now!'' Aron entered the space and put the quail into the cage. [Quail(hen)] [Traits: Cautious, Smart] ''So it''s a smart one. I need a male one to create a pair of them.'' It was easier to kill the quail than catch it alive. However, he was determined to catch animals and try to domesticate them. In the worst case, he will kill them. The next quails weren''t so hard to catch, or he was more prepared after the tricky first one. After searching for some time, he found the trails of a sow with piglets. Aron followed the trail and finally spotted the small boar family next to the small pond. [Boar(Sow)] [Age:5] [Stats: Str 1.4, Agi 1.3, End 1.8] [Traits: Strong, Big tusks] [Skill: Berserk, Charge, Piercing Tusk] ''I need to be careful. I won''t be able to steal these piglets from it.'' He took out his bow and decided to kill the sow and try to catch a few of the piglets. [Boar(Piglet)] [Age: 5 weeks] [Stats: STR 0.5, Agi 0.7, End 1] Swish two arrows pierced the sow head. It tried to run, yet it fell with a loud thud. The piglets didn''t know what to do. Aron didn''t wait and started his game. He arrived before piglets, in this time they finally started to run. ''Too late!'' He jumped at the first one when he got to hold on it. He inserted it into space and started running after the next one. Kick! Strong kick stopped one of the piglets and another one was already inside space. ''2 Down, 3 to go.'' He picked the small stone and threw it into the leg of a smaller one. While he was inserting it, into space other two ran away. ''It''s your loss...without overprotective mother, your life will end in few hours.'' He entered space, there were 3 piglets running around, and he didn''t want them to destroy any plants on the farm. The one that received his kick was still unconscious. ''I probably didn''t control my strength properly.'' He put into a wooden cage and started chasing the second one. This one was actually, the first to fall but it didn''t mean that it was weaker. Aron used the element of surprise to catch it. The boy jumped and caught piglet''s leg. It was trying to struggle, however, the boy just threw into the cage and continued. The last piglet was actually tired and laying on the ground. Aron attacked its leg before and the obvious ending was it to fall after that. It was an easy catch, and he had three piglets in the cages. It didn''t actually end of work. There was actually a big body of the sow still waiting for him outside. He inserted carcass into space and decided to leave the forest. The noise he made was too big, real predators could come and his role would change that time. It was tiring day, for him. There was a person that wanted to trade sheep for meat. Although, there were rumors about sheep recent losing control and attacking its owner. He decided to check it out himself. Knock. Knock. "Hello. How can I help you?" A middle-aged man got out and asked the boy. "I am Aron. I came here to buy your sheep." "Hello. My name is Greg, and I am sorry but after you see this crazy sheep. You will probably refuse to buy it." They went to the sheep and Aron saw that something is wrong with it. The sheep was tied and struggling to free itself. There was chaos inside of its eyes. ''What''s wrong with it.'' [Sheep] [Stats:...] [Traits:...] ''I cannot see anything wrong all stats are normal and there are nothing in traits.'' He was looking at this sheep and thinking. ''Right! I have 1 skill point. Can I use it on the appraisal?'' [It''s possible.] [Appraisal lv.6(1/100000)] [Sheep] [State: Sick(Demon Fever)] ''It''s sick, I didn''t hear about this sickness. It might be unique to animals. If it''s fever I could help it somehow.'' [Demon Fever] [Desc: Weird sickness that causes an animal''s aggression and high fever. After a week, the animal''s will eye will become white and a few hours later. Eventually causing death.] [Treatment: Feeding the animal with a mix of Blue mint, Bristle, yew leaves and water.] [Contagious: No] ''Lucky, it''s not contagious.'' "It''s weird, how long it''s acting this way?" Aron asked he needed to create a cure for it. "3 days. It''s like some kind of curse. Do you want to trade for it?: "It will be hard to do anything in its state. However, I can give you some meat for it. How about I don''t know it''s a weight around 100 kg. What about half of it in meat?" "It''s regretful but I will be forced to kill it. If you won''t kill her, I asked the chief, and he didn''t know how to deal with it." "Ok. I will bring meat in a few minutes." He went to space but before dismantling the sow, he decided to plunder skill. [Charge] [Desc: Run with 150% of your speed in one direction.] [WE cost: 100] [Skill Charge generated. Charge lv.0(0/200)] The dismantling was smooth, and he loaded meat to the wooden container and left. "This is the meat. Can you help me, take it to my hut?" "Yeah. They tied it properly and dragged it to Aron''s hut." "Thank you. If you need meat come to me. I am a new hunter so we can trade." Before inserting the sheep into space, he went to the village chief asked him about the blue mind. He had a normal mind but only one person that could have blue mind would be chief. "Blue mint. I have some dried inside the cottage. It''s uncommon and it grows in closer mountains." "Can you borrow me a little? I need it for something." "You need it for what? It''s good for treating fever, the effect on humans are weird." "It''s not for me. I bought sheep from Greg and it has a fever and I want to try to cure it." "Cure it? How? Do you know anything about animal sicknesses?" "No. I tested some effects of plants on animals. It''s aggressive, so I thought about yew leaves and high fever cannot be treated by weak herb, so I thought of strong blue mint." "Interesting. If we follow your logic, it will be probably healed." He entered his hut and brought a small pouch and took out a few bluish leaves and put hem into Aron''s hand. "Test it. If it works come to me. I need to record the treatment for the future." "Ok" He went back and entered the space with sheep. The mix was ready and the worst part was feeding it to the animal. It was immobilized, so he decided to go with a very weird way. He carved a wooden tube and inserted it into sheep''s mouth. "Try to throw up and I will create longer one." The poured mix into its throat and it entered its stomach after a moment. He took out the tube and watched it. After a moment it became sleepy and lost consciousness. A few days later of this treatment the sheep was back to health. Thanks to taking care of animals in space, his skill leveled up a few times. [Animal Handling lv.5(Locked)] Farming leveled up and Farmer leveled up too. He didn''t have much time for woodworking recently. [WE: 3344] [All requirements met to unlock Ranch Area. Do you wish to unlock it?] 19 Learning from Chief. [Do you wish to unlock the ranch area?] ''Yeah. I need it, for the future.'' [Ranch area added.] [Size: Depends on the number of animals] [Functions: Perfect Environment, Feeding] The ranch area wasn''t big right now. It was pretty small as no animal was there. He added pig, sheep, and quails into the ranch. Hare and piglets were pretty annoying and didn''t give up yet. Quails weren''t domesticated, yet it didn''t matter at all. [3 animals added. Creating areas...] The ranch started to grow in size. The pigsty, coop and appeared from nowhere. Animals were transported to their spaces. ''Do I need to bring food to them?'' [Ranch will automatically feed the animals with food from storage. The host can designate the food for every specimen if the host wants.] The animals had wide space for walking, a small pond to take baths and containers full of the best available food. Brenda was eating happily, although it was alone. It didn''t care about anything as there was food to eat. Quails liked their new space and freedom. Although, space didn''t generate earthworms they were searching around for it. The smart one came closer to the Aron and let him feed itself. ''Ohh, it''s really smart haha!'' [Skill Animal Taming generated. lv.0(1/500)] ''I have an idea how tame these piglets and hare. I should get more hares though.'' The sheep and pig were alone. He needed at least one of every gender to let this ranch improve. Sheep was actually ewe and he needed ram. Brenda couldn''t impregnate itself either. ''My quails will probably lay eggs and number of them will grow.'' Aron left to the village chief, this man had great knowledge, and he could learn a lot from him. "Hi, Chief." "Welcome, how are the sheep?" "It is better, right now. My treatment worked. I can describe it to you." "I am happy to hear it. It''s the first time I am encountering something like this." "I named the disease Demon Fever. The method of treatment is..." Aron explained the wooden tube and simple recipe for this. Chief took out the scrolls and started writing everything down. "That''s good. I have one question for you. Did you give up, learning writing and reading?" "No, I already have the foundation. I can read, although some harder words take me longer to understand. As for writing, I practice from time to time." "You are implying that you can write after one lesson?" "Most likely..." Aron didn''t know what to say. "I have a request for you. Can you become my apprentice? You see, I taught my son all I know, but he died of the weird disease. From that moment I couldn''t find anyone talented. These people need a healer and you are perfect for this position. You already displayed the affinity to animal treatment. What do you think?" [Do you wish to activate profession Herbalist Apprentice?] "Yes. I will do it. I cannot promise you that I will stay in this village in the future." "That''s ok. As far you pass my teaching to someone else it''s good. If you leave the village, it means that''s fate." He had the trace of worry, but he couldn''t let his skill disappear. Skills would be passed on Aron and boy would pass it to someone else. "One more thing. Most of the people call me chief but I don''t want to call me like this anymore. Call me Carl or master. Do you understand?" "Yes, Carl." He accepted this deal, the herbalist won''t be his master for long. The knowledge from the previous world and the help of the system will let him advance fast. [Herbalist Apprentice lv.0(0/1000)] [Boost: +0.1 INT] [Level Cap:5] [Skill Herbalism generated. lv.0(1/500)] ''I need a new schedule. Getting animals will be good too.'' Getting cow and bull, ram and many more. There was still some meat left from the wild sow. ''Let''s go get some chickens from Roger.'' The chief allowed come and read his scrolls with knowledge about the herbs and mixing right concoction from it. He pointed at his shelf with various herbs, from ordinary plants considered weeds to fortuitous encounters and presents from people. "Can I take a look at every one of them? I want to know how to recognize them to not miss them in the forest." "You can do it. Beware some of them can know you off after one sniff!" It wasn''t lying, there were few plants with high soporific effect. Some of them caused other interesting effects like the stimulation of certain parts and many more. "Containers with black marks store poisonous substances, don''t touch them." Most of the containers were normal, there were few with black marks. His attention fell on double sealed one. [Fire Spark flower] [Rank: Grade 1 Spiritual plant.] [Desc: Grows in terrains of strong mythical beasts. Be cautious of animals, it''s scent lures all animals and beast around.] [Effects: Stimulation of mutation in animals. Highly addictive.] ''I need to get my hands on it. The potential of this plant is beyond small village chief.'' Most of the plants were added to his database, the system arranged some space to grow them. He spent a few hours on reading and memorizing the knowledge from the scrolls. It wasn''t essential to memorize it, however, it improved his reading skill and gave some proficiency on herbalism from time to time. The skill memory was generated, it improved the speed of memorizing things, and he was determined to get his memory to the level of perfect memory from his previous life. [Herbalism lv.0 133/500) [Reading lv.2(432/5000)] [Memory lv.1(444/1000)] ''I need to set some goals to follow. After a few minutes, he set the goals for the next two months. [1. Level up professions.] [2. Improve spaces.] [3. Grind skills to a higher level!] [4. Get new professions and skills.] [5. Slowly amass the huge amounts of food.] 20 A Two Months Later. The two months passed and his storage had a lot of food. His stats were increased by professions and constant training. After big amounts of persuasion, he traded for animals with many people. In the forest area, there was a small forest with many different trees planted by him. The village chief has hidden the fire spark flower, after seeing the boy''s big interest in this flower. The hunting few more games unlocked hunter profession. After taming and working on his ranch, he got profession Beginner Animal Tamer. [Name: Aron] [Race: Human/??] [Title: Village chief student] [Faction: Amber Village(Hunter)] [Profession: Farmer lv.MAX, Beginner Sculptor lv.7(67K/100K), Carpenter lv.MAX, Herbalist lv.2(3K/10K), Hunter lv.1(444/2,5K), Beginner Animal Tamer lv.1(444/5K)] [Bloodline:??, ??, Others] [Space: Farming Area lv.3, Forest Area lv.1, Ranch lv.1, Library, Storage] [Stats: STR 2.2, AGI 2.6, END 2.4, INT 6, PER 30, ART 2.5, CHA 1.6, DEX 2.5] [World Energy: 8666] [Points: Skill 5, Stat 5] [Talents: Bow(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Genius, Hardworking, Adaptable, Improved senses, Strong legs, Eagle''s Eyes, ??] [Skills] [General: Throwing lv.MAX Cleaning lv.MAX, Running lv.MAX, Reading lv.MAX, Fast Reading lv.6(56K/100K), Writing lv.MAX, Calligraphy lv.2(443/5K), Memory lv.MAX, Improved Memory lv.2(4445/10K), Charge lv.4(4666/25K), Appraisal lv.7(3456/250K), Plunder lv.1, Let''s Gamble! lv.1, Leap lv.3(7K/50K), Berserk lv.0(0/1K)] [Profession: Animal Handling lv.5(6345/25K), Animal Taming lv.3(3K/10K), Cooking lv.2(675/2500), Herbalism lv.6(442/50K), Woodworking lv.MAX, Farming lv.MAX, Smelting lv.0(0/1K), Weaving lv.2(444/500), Dismantling lv.6(2K/10K), Stealth lv.6(123K/500K), Tracking lv.7(46K/100K), Traps lv.8(65K/250K)] [Fighting: Beginner Bow Mastery lv.MAX Beginner Sword Mastery lv.MAX, Medium Sword Mastery lv.1(5K/50K), Medium Bow Mastery lv.2(43K/250K), Unarmed Fighting lv.5(6345/25000), Hunter''s Archery lv.9(555/250K), JKD lv.7(9999/100K)] [His Ranch: Pigs, Cows, Sheeps, Quails, Boars, Chicken, Hares, Deers] His senses got boosted, although it wasn''t the level of ultra senses. He could hear on greater distance and smell was improved too. Tracking with this trait was easier. His storage was connected to Ranch too, it was gathering the eggs from quail and hens instantly. The cows needed to be milked by him personally. ''Perfect environment and something is stopping these animals from breeding.'' The village chief Carl visited him, his expression was showing that''s something urgent. "Aron, are you inside?" He called loudly. "Yes, you can come in." Carl came inside and started talking. "Yesterday one of my friends from Clay Village came and asked for help. There is weird sickness, in their village, and he asked if I could go and check on patients." His expression was grave. "Unfortunately, my friend isn''t too bright. The way he explained the symptoms, it could be any disease." "Could you go with him to that village and diagnose these people? If I go it will take forever with my old legs..." It was the truth, the village chief was old, and he was easily tired. Traveling 20 kilometers would take too long. "Ok. I always wanted to visit other villages, yet I was focused on training. When should I depart?" Aron answered with a happy expression. He wasn''t in other villages yet, and he was curious about many things. Aron took the bag and packed some herbs from Carl''s hut. His friend was a bulky man with a long beard. "Hello, little one. I am Alex, nice to meet you. Probably." His expression became weird after the fate of his people were put on the shoulders of the youngster. "Hi, I am Aron. I will be in your care and nice to meet you." Aron didn''t want to be rude, so he ignored the expression of this old man. They departed shortly after that. The man insisted on running this 20 km as he was worried about his people. Aron agreed, and they started to run, it was nothing for the boy. His endurance was already high enough to sprint for a few hours without any sign of fatigue. After a few minutes, the man was slightly surprised by Aron''s carefree expression, he decided to speed up. Aron didn''t care much, he was purposely matching speed to the man as a person was guiding him. 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes? ''ARE YOU EVEN HUMAN'' The man started to pant, yet his dignity wouldn''t allow him to yield before proving his strength. Another speed up? "Are you sure? I am not judging you or anything but you will collapse in next minutes if we don''t slow down. Although, I can just carry you on my back. However, it''s my first time visiting your village, and we will lose time with me searching for your village." Aron said with emotionless voice, Alex gritted his teeth and agreed to his reasoning. The boy was around 170 centimeters tall and his muscles refined. His face was considered handsome. After an hour, they reached the Clay village. Aron was intrigued because this village had buildings made from stone. ''Interesting. This village must have Stone Mason. I wonder if I can learn anything from him.'' He looked at Alex and laughed. The man tried to act tough, effects of this stupidity are visible. Wet clothes, hard breathing, and probably sore muscles. ''Sprinting 20 kilometers to prove his manliness to a random kid. As Carl said, he isn''t too bright'' [Name: Alex] [Race: Human] [Title: Alex the Bullhead.] [Faction: Clay Village] [Profession: Lumberjack, Stone Mason] [Bloodline: Human(95%), Red Orc(5%)] [Talents: Axe(Low-Mortal), Hammer(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Improved Strength, Stubborn, Stupid] [Skills: Masonry, Cooking, Woodworking, Throwing, Beginner Axe Mastery] ''Interesting, Orc bloodline. How does it work?'' [The person has some Red Orc ancestors, the bloodline is diluted to this extent.] [In comparison, Host can have multiple bloodlines with 100% of purity.] ''Why my bloodlines are unknown?'' [Host has no knowledge about his own race. Races have unique bloodlines and it might be the reason.] 21 The Clay Village. Aron could feel that the ground is full of clay, but people didn''t know how to make bricks. It was regretful as it could be really good material for building. Even, if these people didn''t use bricks, they used the stone. After a few minutes, Alex was ready to lead him around the village. Aron was outsider and people around wouldn''t let him inside of their houses. The first patient was a blonde woman, she was first to fall ill and her state was most serious. The youth didn''t wait and entered hut with Alex. Woman was lying and her appearance was terrible, pale skin, bloody eyes, and spots on her body. [Name: Samantha] [State: Sick(Measles), Weakened, Malnutrition, Dehydration, Fever] [...] [Measles] [Desc. Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the measles virus. Symptoms usually develop 10¨C12 days after exposure to an infected person and last 7¨C10 days. Initial symptoms typically include fever, often greater than 40 ¡ãC, cough, runny nose, and inflamed eyes] [Treatment: Keep patient hydrated, and fed. A mix of dandelions, chamomile, lime''s flower, and purple grass with warm water should accelerate the process of immunity development.] ''It''s not looking good. If it''s measles, Amber village is infected too. On Earth, there was a vaccine and some cream treatment. I have almost all of these ingredients, the only thing I am missing is purple grass.'' "I have most ingredients with me, did you see purple grass anywhere? I will need it, to make a herbal mixture." He asked with anticipation. "Purple grass... I know where we can find something like this. It''s growing near marshlands, most of the people go around it because of snakes inhabiting this area." "Can you show me the way?" Asked Aron as the existence of snakes didn''t move him at all. "I can. Are you sure you want to go there?" Asked Alex with unbelieving voice. "Do you want these people to die? If we don''t get this grass, there will be none to care of sick soon!" He had weak poison resistance and appraisal to counter the effects of the poison. The surroundings of the village were mostly wetlands and marshlands. There were some quarries too, however it wasn''t most important. There were many different kinds of weird flowers and mushrooms around. ''Not having waterproof boots sucks! I need to find a way to recreate rubber, it will be extremely useful'' A few minutes they arrived, the youth had improved senses, so he could actually hear many hisses and weird sound made by snakes. ''He didn''t bullshit about these snakes.'' [Dark Green Viper] [Traits: Venom Glands, Strong Fangs, Flexible body, Venom Immunity(Dark Green Viper Poison)] [Skills: Bite, Spring Jump] ''Nothing too useful, getting few to cultivate poison wouldn''t be a bad idea though.'' Let''s start from killing this one first and getting immunity to their venom. The most important thing is to get the purple grass to start treating these people as the entire village will fall sick soon. The boy picked a small rock from the ground and threw it into the closest snake. Alex was confused, he didn''t have senses and it was an irrational action for him. Aron didn''t stop, he was like a machine gun striking every snake in the vicinity. His next action was weirder, he just started walking to the purple grass while tapping the ground with his hand. ''It would be a waste to leave these snakes here.'' This place had a high amount of purple grass, at least enough to treat the villagers for now. After getting his hands on grass, he signaled and they came back to the village. Preparation of herbal mixture was easy, so moment later boy was treating woman. SLAM! A man with a scar on his face entered the house. His sight fell on Aron, feeding his wife and his expression became angry. "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY WIFE!" "I am tr..." Before the boy could finish, the man threw himself with fists at him. Alex stopped him, middle way and said. "Don''t fight here with..." He wanted to say about his sick wife but man started struggling and insulting. "If you are man, get out and fight. Little shit!..." He signaled Alex to set the man free while pointing at the door. They left the hut, the man didn''t wait long and tried to punch the boy. Youth dodged with ease and looked at him with smile on his face. Punch! Kick! "STOP FUCKIN DODGING YOU PIPSQUEAK!" Aron expression changed, it was boring. This man had nothing to offer. "With skill like this... You cannot protect yourself...not saying about your wife...words about being or not being a man from trash like you..it''s an insult to all men!" After these words, man took out a small knife and started attacking Aron with it. "You cannot win like a man...Do you want to die as coward?" Aron became really annoyed by this person. "Let''s finish this!" The end of the battle was fast and none could predict it. The boy dodged one of the attacks with a fast sidestep and started a counter attack. Punch! Kick! Punch! Kick! He barraged this man with attacks. Every one of them stronger than the previous one. "STOP! YOU WILL KILL HIM!" Alex shouted while trying to catch the boy. "Ok." He stopped attacking like he was punching a training bag. "Kid, don''t you think that you are too ruthless?" "No, he deserved it. Idiots like him, learn through the pain. He should be able to move in a few days more or less." Aron said with carefree voice. This person asked for this fate. His stupidity could kill an entire village. Although sickness wasn''t lethal the malnutrition and dehydration could kill most of the villagers. The treatment proceeded after treating sick, he gathered the rest of the people and distributed the mixture. "Mix some of it with warm water and feed it to the sick. All of you should drink the mixture too. This sickness is highly contagious and symptoms will arrive after a few days so developing immunity will be good preventive move." Most the people didn''t take it seriously but fear of getting sick was stronger by prejudice and stupidity. It was late evening and going back was out of the option. Alex came and invited him to his house. "Kid, you are strong. We need to spar someday!" Alex was a weird entity, his mix of orc blood made him a warmonger. 22 The Marchlands. Alex prepared the room for Aron, small yet cozy. After being sure, that Alex left, he entered the space. ''I want to explore marshlands.'' Inside of his space was a small pile of snake carcasses. The boy started pondering, what effects would new traits on his body. [If host plunders and absorb some traits, unpredictable changes to the body might happen. For example, adding trait Strong fangs or Strong tusks will make a host grow fangs or tusks. Absorbing trait venom gland would make host develop venom glands inside of his body.] ''What about things like string jump?'' [The skills are a different thing. Getting skill tusk attack would be useless until the host grows tusks. The bite will work but it will be ridiculous. String jump is actually possible with a combination of trait Flexible body.] ''That''s good to know. How about bloodlines? Can I plunder them too?'' [Current level of plunder doesn''t allow plundering bloodlines.] ''How do I level up Plunder? There are no proficiency points.'' [Through quests or with skill points.] ''Let''s use one point on this then.'' [Plunder lv.2] [Allows plunder up to two...] ''I can plunder two traits or skills or talents. Let''s put one more point'' [Plunder lv.3] [Allows plunder up to 4 traits/skills/talents. It''s possible to plunder the bloodline.] Let''s plunder from these snakes first. [Flexible body.] [Cost: 200 WE] [Venom immunity(Dark-Green Viper)] [Cost: 50 WE] [Poison Digestion] [Cost: 500 WE] [Skill: Bite] [Cost: 20] ''The rest of the traits of these snakes will make me look...'' Growing pair of fangs? Getting strange camouflage on the skin? These things were out of option for Aron. He planned to work with humans and looking like weird human-snake hybrid was out of the option. The most useful was actually the poison digestion, snakes did consume poisonous creatures like frogs or snails. They weren''t immune for poisons, yet they could digest it before it took effect on them. ''I can be immune to the venom of snakes and with plunder, breeding snakes wouldn''t be hard.'' A next day, he left at dawn to explore marshlands. There were many different mushrooms and other marsh plants. ''I didn''t want to breed weird animals, yet I cannot do it anymore.'' He could make fried exotic meals from them as ingredients. Another thing was venom and many internal organs were useful in medicine. ''I might slowly recreate modern medicine here.'' He found 3 different kinds of snakes, with dark-green viper. [Grass Snake] [Traits: Anal Glands, Flexible body, Weak willed] [Skills: Pretend Dead!, Stinky Shot, Hiding, Bite] ''So not only skunks use the smelly attack to scare off the predators.'' The smell wasn''t so bad, the boy just caught some specimen of this snake and put them small sack and threw into space. The most dangerous was an actually weird cobra, that he found. It wasn''t spitting cobra, yet it had strong venom and most surprising was it was super agile. [Cishe Cobra ¡â] [Stats: STR 0.7 AGI 3.6 END 1.4] [Traits: Agile, Venom Glands, Flexible, Strong fangs, Venom immunity(Cishe Cobra),...] [Skills: Bite, Venom Injection...] Catching this Cobra wasn''t an easy task, he did it with a trick. He watched it, from far and waited for the right moment. Cobra started to hunt and found the prey. It was a small mouse, with fast movement it injected the venom and swallowed it whole. Aron attacked it, at this moment. The sneak attack while unprepared snake couldn''t dodge with its high speed. ''I got you!'' He plundered the Agile and Venom immunity. The most problematic was these changes wouldn''t happen to his body instantly. He decided to focus on different things as plants and mushrooms. After adjustments, he caught the cobra and some frogs. It was time to leave the marchlands for now. He didn''t explore it completely but many things would stop him. Walking through the unstable ground wasn''t easy. Most of his body was dirty and wet. ''Let''s head back to the Clay Village for now.'' Before he headed to the village, he entered the space and inserted new specimen into the ranch. [New animals added to the database.] In the Ranch, appeared new terrariums for frogs and snakes. [Condition met. Ranch level up.] [New function unlocked. Controlled Breeding.] ''So space was restricting the animal''s instincts to mate. I wonder how more is this entity capable'' He left the space while wondering about the new obtained function. ''I need to get more animals.'' The concept was easy, however, the number of species around was limited. ''Let''s start with birds. There are so many kinds of them.'' This was the first idea and after pondering for a moment. ''I should hunt at night and catch some night hunting specimens.'' He came back to Clay village and came back to Alex to get some spare clothes, however, Alex wasn''t inside his hut. ''Where is he? Not home?'' The hut of Alex was a normal hut, it wasn''t masonry. ''Let''s search for his workshop!'' There weren''t many people in this village. Most of them were lying in beds, some people are taking care of them. It''s problematic, most of these people won''t start working in the next days. Alex was working, he could stop thinking about all the problems inside this village. "Hello!" Greeted him, Aron. Alex was surprised by the appearance of the kid. His entire body was covered by mud and clay from marshlands. "Did you swim in the swamp or what?" In Alex''s eyes, Aron was a weird existence. Leave him for a moment and weird things will start to happen. "Can you borrow me some spare clothes?" The boy asked the bulky man. "There are set of working clothes of my assistant inside this chest. He is sick anyway." ''I could learn masonry from him.'' "Can I work with you? I want to learn a thing or two about masonry. I can get something in exchange for your lessons." "It''s ok. I needed an assistant anyway. Don''t need to pay me back or anything. You helped my people.." They worked for some time, and masonry wasn''t hard. It required strength to carry materials and use a hammer to chip the stone. [Masonry skill generated. Masonry lv.0(1/500)] [Mason profession unlocked.] [Mason lv.0 (1/1000)] [Boost: +0.1 STR/END] His strength was already nearing 3 and getting another boost will make stronger. Professions gave him, precious points and increased his stats. Another thing was a big amount of knowledge related to a certain field. 23 The Quarry. Aron decided to stay in clay village until people will get better. Although he wasn''t related to them, any human around could be his subordinate in the future. Besides one retard, that tried to attack him. Rest were polite and respected him. ''The problem with masonry. The Amber Village didn''t have any queries around. I could take the number of stones from Clay''s village quarry.'' He decided to head to their quarry. It wasn''t far, the size of it was huge. It wasn''t made by these villagers. Aron didn''t wait and ran inside, he started to absorb stones to the system. After a minute or so, a notification appeared. [Huge amount of stone detected. Unlocking Stone Quarry.] [Congratulations. You unlocked the resource areas.] [Forest Are will be separated into lumberjack''s area and orchards.] [System will replant the trees into their separate area.] [Stone Quarry] [Passive generation: 5 tonnes of stone per day.] [Cost: Stone(50 WE per tone)] [Functions: Resource Generation] [Storage: Connected] ''All my resources will go to storage! No waste of space.'' It was an interesting concept, if there was quarry then should be something to generate clay or water. He headed the marshlands once more, the clay was everywhere around this village, absorbing it to close would lead to villagers pondering about the hole. [New resource detected.] [Digging site Unlocked.] [Digging Site] [Passive generating: 1 tone per day(Clay)] [Cost: Clay(20 WE per tone)] ''I can start creating pottery haha'' The next was swamp itself, absorption was weird. After around 100 liters, the notification rang. [Detection of water substance.] [Water is not drinkable.] [Creating swamp.] [Adding wetlands to Farming Area] [Cannot generate well with low-quality water. The host should search for better quality water.] ''I should search for a better water source.'' He came back to Alex house and made some laundry, as he didn''t take many sets of clothes, so he actually needed to clean these. He has some clean clothes inside the space, yet he didn''t want to explain himself to anyone. The animals in space started to breed between themselves. System stopped automatically gathering the eggs and let quails and hens incubate their eggs. The other animals, taking aside the snakes and frogs were actually mating. ''I need to get more animals. There will be a problem of small DNA pull and at some point, the quality of my animals will fall.'' [Host shouldn''t worry about this. The problem of low genetic pull won''t be affecting animals in the Ranch area. Although getting more animals would increase of improving our animals.] ''You mean if I bring sheep with better quality wool. You will prioritize getting more animals with this particular trait.'' [The specimens with negative traits won''t mate and system recommends butchering them in earlier. Positive traits will mate to improve quality of herd.] ''You can prevent genetic problems connected to small genetic pull, yet you cannot remove negative traits from animals.'' [Host is wrong. It''s possible to remove negative traits from animals, yet the host didn''t unlock it at this moment.] [It might change in the future or it might not change at all. All depends on the host.] [It''s better to give less but accurate information than give more inaccurate information.] ''Whatever.'' A few days later, the villagers were getting better. It was time to come back to Amber village. He was packing his stuff when Alex called him. "Someone came here to talk to you." It was the same man, that he beat a few days ago. His body was still sore and covered with bruises. He was gritting the teeth, yet looking in a weird way at Alex. "I came here, to apologize for my attack. A few years ago, I was mercenary, my carried ended but my habits are still part of me." The man wanted to fight Aron again, yet he was afraid of something and it was related to Alex in some way. "Ok, I hope you will take this lesson to heart. Next time, you won''t wake up." "I understand... Remember, even if you are strong. There are always people stronger than you. I met people that destroyed the stones with bare hands." "You don''t need to remind me. I saw the wolf, it''s speed was hard to follow my eyes. It ripped the head of the deer like it was nothing." The boy wasn''t cocky, yet he couldn''t let stupid villagers like this man do what they wanted. "Ok, I want to leave this village. I hope next time I meet you. You will be more tactful." The man left and Alex laughed. "He didn''t want to apologize at all. His wife woke up, and when she heard about his idiocy. She started to scream at him and beat him. She is only one person, with control over him." "Why don''t you beat him to senses then?" Asked curious Aron. The man was problematic and caused trouble in the village. "He might appear hot-blooded and stupid. This person is honorable and saved my life multiple times. I don''t have the heart to hurt him. " "I understand, I hope his wife will teach him some common sense." Aron was leaving the village and some villagers came to thank him personally. They brought some gifts. "You don''t need to give me anything." Aron couldn''t take much from them, he knew that there was still time before the harvest. So they would have no food. He took some seeds of the different crop though and said. "I will come here in a few days check your situation. You can thank me then." He signaled and left. He got barley seeds and rye. The system will arrange space to plant them and his storage will have more kinds of food inside. He needed to create prototypes for the mill and many different devices to improve his own life and life of his people in the future. The mill to grind crops into flour, the pottery wheel to create pottery and many more devices, simple but useful. People of the modern world had factories to make these things for them. Most processes were automated by robot arms and other inventions. ''If I got quarry from stone. Will I get mines from ores?'' 24 The Ambush. Aron was slowly traveling to Amber village. His space was producing stone and clay by itself. His target was to find a good quality wood source. The forest has some brook or small rivers and water are clear. Finding such a source, was a small problem for him right now. His knowledge and skill were rapidly growing, yet he wasn''t satisfied at all. It was a few hundreds of meters from the village, people were hiding in the bushes waiting for him. ''It should be a blacksmith, this man cannot stay me any longer... I can dodge them, yet I really want to finish this conflict for good. I will plunder his talents and skills, blacksmith''s skills will make my position in the village more stable.'' He took out the bow and decided to check their intentions, to confirm his assumptions. The arrows hit the ground close to a man hiding inside one of the bushes. They left their positions and started to walk into his direction. "WHY DID YOU SHOOT AT US?" One of them shouted, trying to play the victim in this ambush. "One more step and you will visit underworld. If you think that I will miss by asking your lord about how many carcasses I brought to the village." "Well, well, well! You stupid motherfucker! You cannot live without worry, while our sons are missing!" "You blame me for their disappearance? They beat me every fuckin time, I saw them. My life was hell, even that day when they left. They beat me almost to death." He faked some emotions while shouting to them. "It doesn''t matter! We cannot let you live. You are an outsider to villages and you must leave!" "I must leave? Because a bunch of morons left and you blame me for that. IT DOESN"T MATTER IF I WAS INVOLVED OR NOT. YOU WANT TO FIND SOMEONE TO BE YOUR SCAPEGOAT!" It wasn''t an annoyance, it was wrath. These people didn''t care about what was right and wrong. They chose him as a scapegoat. The bullying from before was probably their doing too. "I have one more question. Did you order your children to bully me? Answer me! " "Hahaha! You think that we would let a freak like you living in our society. You are stupid!" "Good to hear. Do you want to know something about your children?" He smiled while saying the last sentence. "Talk and we might let you leave!" The blacksmith was desperate, his nephew was missing for a long time, and he was worried about him. "Good. I will tell you. THEY ARE FUCKIN DEAD! THEY DIED LIKE PIGS! HAHHAHAHA! Do you want to know something? I slaughtered them because I thought they were beasts, yet I was wrong it was your fault. They were just good children listening to their retarded parents." He said with a trace of regret in his voice. These idiots weren''t good people, most of their fault was their parent''s fault. "I WILL FUCKIN KILL YOU STUPID FREAK!" One of them couldn''t keep his anger anymore and started running in his direction. "You forgot something!" This moment arrow penetrated the skull of this man. The rest was terrified, they didn''t even see when he shoot this arrow. "Hank, shoot this brat!" Blacksmith shouted and one of man started shooting at Aron. "HAHAHA! With lousy skill like this...you cannot shoot immobile target.." Swish! Swish! Swish!... The only blacksmith was standing, all of them were dead. "You see, I regret not killing you earlier. Trash kid!" This moment Aron penetrated his heart with another arrow. "So many regrets...with no time to live." His voice was hoarse and melancholic, the vicious cycle must continue as there are always people that won''t let you live peacefully because of their own stupidity. He put the bodies inside the space and changed clothes into a clean one. There was no glory in killing these people, they were only idiots with prejudice against him. The village was lively and none knew that blacksmith was dead. They thought, he left to visit his family in other villages. Aron decided to visit the village chief first and explain to him the sickness. Knock! Knock! Knock! "Come in.." The silent voice came out of the hut. Aron came in and found out the village chief in the terrible state. He was half dead, it was measles that Alex brought with him. [Carl] [State: Dying] [...] '' It''s my fault! If I came earlier, I could cure him with a prescription.'' He wasn''t aware that tears began to flow from his eyes. "It''s ok, kid. I was old anyway. I wouldn''t live long. Take care of this village. I know that blacksmith won''t let you take my place so become village healer as long you can. You were a good student. Thank you for all..." His voice became weaker and weaker. He started to scream and after few seconds he died. Aron stood there as it wasn''t happening. ''He didn''t let anyone take care of him. Even in his last moments, he thought about these fucking villagers.'' Two leaders of this village were dead. He could lead them, yet his emotional state was quite bad. ''I could prevent all of this...'' Blaming himself and decided that he cannot stay inside of this village. He called all villagers, and they buried the chief and after some time, the boy started talking. "The village needs a new chief." "I think blacksmith will be the perfect candidate!" One of the blacksmith supporters said with pride. "No, he won''t!" Said Aron with anger in his voice. "Boy, I know you were a chief student but you are a little brat with milk under your nose. KNOW YOUR PLACE!" "I wonder how fuckin corpse will lead this village?" He was already at his limits. These events became too much. He had experience from a previous life, yet this body was young and reacted differently. "I don''t understand!" Said villager with confusion. "I killed them all! The crazy motherfuckers that bullied me. Today, a few hours ago blacksmith with his friends set an ambush on me. I killed every one of them!" People became shocked and started to fear this boy. Roger came from the crows and said. "I told you, boy. Killing isn''t the way. You should leave, you cannot leave within this society. Even if you change, people will blame you for what happened." "GET OUT BEAST!" Someone shouted from the crowd. The wife of blacksmith came out and started cursing at him. "GIVE ME MY HUSBAND BACK! YOU MONSTER!" She was crying while saying these words. She loved him, more than her life. "Bring me, justice. TODAY MY HUSBAND DIED! TOMORROW YOUR SON! KILL THAT CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER!" She shouted and people around started to attack him. One jumped at Aron with fists, yet boy dodged and kicked him with full strength. "I WILL SLAUGHTER ANYONE THAT ATTACKS ME!" He didn''t want to kill and started to retreat from the village. Rose was standing within the crowd with tears in her eyes. She was scared of him and it hurt more than all of these people wanting his death. ''There is no place for me. These people were right, I cannot live within normal society'' People were scared so he went to his hut and took his things to space and started leaving. "I am disappointed in your resolve kid. You could let them live. You know that the lives of these simpleminded people were important to the village." Roger was sad about the state of events. "I am sorry. I could spare their lives, yet it was pointless. They would search for ways to mess with me. Although, killing all of them was little too much. I cannot change past." Roger took out the small necklace with fangs. "You currently lost your way, yet someday you will find it again. You can visit me anytime. This necklace was inherited from my ancestors. I hope you will give it to your child. Goodbye, my student." Roger left in hurry and Aron didn''t wait much and left too. ''They will have trouble surviving.'' No tools, no medicine, and a new leader. ''It''s not my problem anymore... I need to go to the city, the rumors spread faster than wind in small villages like those. None will accept murdered into their society.'' 25 The Massacre. Aron was heading in direction of the city, it was pretty far from the village and it will take him at least two weeks to get there. Meantime in the village. Rose was sitting on her bed and still couldn''t believe that weak-willed boy changed into a reliable person and then became a monster that was murdering people. "I don''t understand... I shouldn''t help him then... It''s my fault that he killed these people. I created this monster! It''s all my fault!" She was blaming herself, while her father came in and said. "It''s not your fault. This boy didn''t belong to our village in the first place. His nature would come out sooner or later. Only regret that we didn''t see this earlier. Maybe these people wouldn''t die!" Her father became the new chief as Roger didn''t want to take care of it and there was none with enough support in the village. A few days later. It was another day, Rose woke up and started her usual routine. Most of her thoughts were concentrated on past events. Suddenly, she heard the sound of hooves and her father shouted. "Don''t come out of the house!" He was worried, and she didn''t see him like this, so she did as he said. Casper left and house raiders entered the village. When they saw, him one of them said. "We are Black-wind Bandits, and we came for protection fees." He was arrogant and Casper didn''t know how to react on such person. "I am the village chief. This village cannot give much. We had bad times recently, the many people died." He tried to persuade them, yet man smirked and said. "We will check this ourselves!" He signaled people to start plundering the village. "No..." Before he finished, one of the bandits shoots him with cut off his head with a sword. "He was annoying!" They killed, raped and plundered everything. When Rose heard the screams, she was scared and remained hidden. BANG! One of the bandits destroyed doors and entered the hut. Rose squeaked and he heard her. "WOMAN! HAHA! Guess who is lucky today!" He spotted Rose hideout and started approaching her. "Leave me, alone! LEAVE ME ALONE! MY FATHER WILL COME AND KILL YOU!" She was desperately shouting yet man didn''t stop. "Soon, all villagers will be dead. So you ''father'' is probably lying dead somewhere already! Stop resisting and come! I will make you true woman!" "NOO!!! MY FATHER WILL SAVE ME!" It was the last scream before something inside of her snapped. Her eyes became empty. Her body started to release vapor, the temperature in the room started to rise. "GIRL, YOU ARE HOT!" Said bandit with lust all over his place. BOOM! Her body exploded with fire. Her eyes started to burn and the entire body was covered with flames. "Burn, you piece of dirt." She said with emotionless voice and turned the man into ashes with a fireball. She left the hut and saw the body of her father. "It''s okay, father! I will turn all of them in ashes! Including this bastard, ARON!" She exploded with fury and started burning bandits one by one. "WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU BEAST!?" One of the bandits said while screaming! She started burning, his body parts one by one. The man couldn''t withstand the pain and died in agony. Her face didn''t show any expression. "Humans are weak. Little pain and they die..." She already lost her mind, the tortures were more like experiments on these people. The last connection to the human world was fulfilling revenge on these people. It could be fast, yet a bit of humanity left inside of her desired them to die in the most painful possible way. The leader of the bandits saw her, murdering one of his people after another, so he screamed to the rest to run for their lives. Some of these started running before the order, the vision of dying in monstrous girl was enough to abandon comrades and run for their lives. "Why are you running?! STAY WITH ME!" Her voice was chilling, and they tried to accelerate even more. Their horses were already at the limits, fire, and smell of freshly burned corpses made them lose control. She was chasing them, yet leader and few of bandit were lucky and escaped only with few burns on their bodies. "You cannot escape from me! I WILL FIND YOU AND LET YOU FEEL MY WARMTH!" She shouted to the sky as all of them were already far from her. Rose was traveling and killing everyone on her way. Village after village, she searched for them and Aron. "You don''t know where is Aron? You are useless. I don''t need you, so the world doesn''t need you either." Some faced easy death, others were experiments of her new powers. The black wind bandits reached their base and from more than 20. There were only 5 left. One of the base defenders asked. "Where are the rest?" The sight of five people coming back from the simple robbery was weird. He noticed that their appearances are pitiful. Full of burns and most of them were still trembling. The leader shouted to gather the rest of their forces. "WE NEED TO LEAVE THIS AREA. PACK YOUR THING AND LEAVE." His voice was full of fear, he knew that if that beast came here. They won''t stand a chance, even if the position of the base was secret. However, there was always a way to find it. They were humans, and they had needs too, they couldn''t hide forever in one place. They left and headed into the direction of the city. Aron was a few days from the city. He found a few new plants on his journey and trained his skill most of the time. His mind became calmer, the future ahead was more important than a few villagers. His mind focused on becoming stronger and getting more skills. 26 Welcome to the Blood city! He finally arrived in the city, the Blood city was surrounded by colossal walls. There were guards on the walls and the only way in was city gate. He approached the city gates and one of the guards shouted to him. "Stop, state your intentions and identity!" It was standard procedure to filter out the criminals and people with bad intentions. There were other ways to enter the city, yet Aron didn''t know them yet. "I am Aron, I came from Amber village. I am searching for work!" The man scanned him from right to left and said. "You look a little suspicious but you can enter. If someone catches you on anything that breaks the law, I will throw you out." He said with resolution and pointed him the way to the city. The first impression of the city was quite bad. The odor of feces and other wastes flowing on streets was unbearable for the first time. "Hahaha, kid! You will get used to it. Welcome to the Blood city!" He laughed and came back to his post. He spotted some beggars and decided to get some information before going further. One of the beggars was sitting and asking for money. He decided to approach him and ask for directions. Beggars were the best source of information if you had anything to exchange. As they were ears and eyes of the city. "Hello. Can you tell me when can I find a marketplace and some inn?"He took out some bread from his bag and showed it to the man. "Interesting. I can actually lead you there if you want." Aron didn''t see anything suspicious, the man stats and traits didn''t reveal anything. He leads him into a dead end and shouted. "Boy, we have fat lamb here!" The few men appeared and attacked Aron. "Regretfully. People are the same everywhere." The group of thugs didn''t understand the meaning of his words, yet he started to beat them one after another without any problems. "Guys, this boy is weird. Let''s go!" They left as they couldn''t do anything to Aron. ''Whatever, I still don''t know where is a market.'' At this moment he felt chills running on his spine. Swish! Arrow was flying in his direction and he dodged instinctively. He took out his bow and spotted his assailant and shot at him. The man was surprised and excited at the same time. Aron saw him, making a signal with his hand and then someone just knocked him out. A few hours later. Inside of cell, Aron was lying on the floor with hands tied. "Sleeping Princess finally woke up!" Someone said to him and kicked him. "Where am I? Who are you?" Kick! Kick! "I didn''t order you talk. SHUT UP!" The man shouted at him, after 2 kicks. "Listen well, because I won''t fucking repeat! From today onward you are a recruit in our organization. You will be trained and tested. If you are lucky, you will survive. If you fail, just be ready to face a fate worse than death." ''FUCK! I got dragged into some kind organization!'' [???] [Stats:???] [Faction: ???] ''Why I cannot appraise him? It''s weird.'' "Ok, little brat. Get your shit together and wait for next instructions." The weird person left and closed the door while making the room completely dark again. ''I do anything right now. I am sure someone is observing me and entering space won''t do anything well.'' A few hours later. BOOM! His doors were slammed with big force. "Move!" They left the room, and he was dragged to a bigger hall. "Recruits, meet snow-white! He will join you from today." Said person that dragged him into the bigger hall with many people wearing the same clothes. "You know the rules. The WEAKEST RECRUIT WILL FIGHT THE SNOW WHITE!" The recruits pushed kid with mace forward. "Ohh, so in this month. Goblin is the weakest." "FIGHT!" Aron''s hands were still tied and the person called Goblin didn''t care about this fact and attacked him. He dodged but something wasn''t right. Goblin''s speed was actually close to his own. ''How is it possible?'' He couldn''t actually think any longer because he felt a sharp pain at his back. He was hit by mace at back. This wasn''t game, these people wanted to kill him, and he couldn''t lose focus even for the second. "Let''s play then little ''Goblin''. " Aron mocked him, this was intentional. He attacked him with mace again. Aron didn''t dodge this time, he kicked the man into the arm to change the course of the mace. Goblin reacted fast but it wasn''t ending of Aron''s attack. Another kick followed and it was unfortunate kick into Goblin''s leg. Immiadetely, Goblin lost balance and fell on the ground. Aron couldn''t let him stand up, so he attacked again and again. "STOP!" The man from before shouted. "You won, snow-white. Remember for the future! I am the one that controls life and death here! IF YOU WANT TO KILL THE FLY! YOU NEED TO FUCKIN ASK ME BEFORE YOU DO IT! DO YOU FREAKING UNDERSTAND IT?" Aron looked at barely breathing Goblin. "Ok, finish him off." He said and threw the dagger freeing Aron''s hand. Aron couldn''t resist the orders of this man. He was beyond his strength, the only way was to kill Goblin. This kid wanted to kill him too, so it was killed or be killed. One move took a breath of this boy. The reality was cruel and strong fed on the weak. [Lingo] [Title: Goblin] [Talent: Mace(Low-mortal)] [Traits: Ugly, Pain Resistance, Poison resistance] [Skills: Beginner Mace Mastery, Beginner...] He plundered talent and skill related to mace, pain and poison resistance. These things won''t be useful for the dead kid anyway. "Good job. There is a possibility that you will become a good killer in the future. AS FAR AS YOU SURVIVE THE TRAINING! HAHAHA. Join the recruits, you are the weakest now. " "Rest of recruits will show you around. Good luck, snow-white!" The person disappeared in a moment. One of the recruits approached him and punched him into the stomach. "You killed my brother. I will kill you at selections, trash white." He said and left, someone showed him where they sleep and gave him new clothes. They explained to him, the rules of this place and his fate really bad at this moment. This organization had a system of training recruits. The weakest one had to challenge someone stronger, or he would be killed. The strongest of the group will be taken somewhere and it was cycled. Sometimes they brought the new recruits and most of them died in the trial. Goblin personally killed 9 recruits and none thought that barrier would be broken and Aron killed Goblin and took his place. Another problem was Goblin''s brother, he swore that he will kill him during selections. Selections were two weeks later and anyone could challenge anyone. However, most times weakest challenged second weakest and from time to time. Strongest was challenged, there were unwritten rules. These kids weren''t competing, they were trying to survive in this cruel world. 27 The Dinning Hall. Training was split into three parts, the hand-hand combat, weapon lessons and lastly assassination techniques. After you finished the training, it wasn''t easy at all. The new problem arrived, you needed to eat and there were two ways to get something to eat. Dining Hall and trading center as he was broke for now, he decided to go to first. Other recruits didn''t talk to him, because most of them thought him as soon dead. The dining room was a small hall with one counter, where one lady was standing. He came there, not suspecting anything and greeted the woman. "Hello. Can I get something to eat?" He was polite, he could take anything from space. "Yes, however, you need to choose from three options." She displayed him, the three containers with soup. [Vegetable soup(Poisoned)] [Desc: Soup with the addition of weak poison. Low nutrition.] [Vegetable soup(Poisoned)] [Desc: Vegetable with the addition of moderate poison. Some pieces of meat were thrown inside. Moderate nutrition] [Meat soup(poisoned)] [Desc: Meat soup with strong poison inside of it. Deadly yet nutritious] ''I can handle the second option at most with my poison resistance. There won''t be the effect on me from the first option, yet there won''t be enough nutrition either. Let''s start with the second option.'' The woman enjoyed the struggle of new recruits and most of them would choose the third option and die. Some people even made bets about the survival of recruits. The worst part was there were always 3 options and all of them were poisoned. He was lucky, there were 3 levels of poisons. Sometimes she throws the weird poisons to every option and enjoys watching recruits dying. Another rule inside of the Dining Room was the recruits couldn''t start eating before all of them have chosen the option. It was funny, watch all of these kids praying to don''t know who to get a safe option. There were times when she threw expensive potions inside of the most toxic option. If you could survive poison then you would become strong. This woman had scientist thinking, all people were just test''s subjects inside of her eyes. Your first impression would be, that it''s an ordinary beautiful woman. The deeper look would reveal many weird features on her body. Her eyes were of different color, it wouldn''t be weird if these eyes were like a gradient of multiple colors. You could say, that her eyes were like a rainbow. Another thing was her hair tips, it had very weird shapes from poisonous fumes. There were a few less important thing, like black fingernails and ultra pale skin. The things made her prettier, hypnotizing eyes, unique hairstyle and skin white like jade. ''My stomach can actually digest poisons. Let''s risk a little and eat the third option.'' "I want meat soup. It looks tasty!" Normal people wouldn''t spot a minimal change in woman''s expression. There was a small trace of disappointment, yet it vanished after fast, and he spotted it only thanks to his cheat perception. He found an empty table and waited for all people to take their food. After a moment, the atmosphere was grave and people started to eat. You couldn''t miss meal time if you hadn''t your own food from the exchange or somewhere else. You had to eat these deadly meals. His soup was quite tasty, there was a trace of bitterness from poison. The taste wasn''t bad, he was quite happy. He used the system to absorb the little parts of vegetables to the database. There were carrots, onion, and gieas. Gieas was actually something, that he didn''t see on Earth. It was like a hybrid of many weird plants. It will be planted inside of his space, and he thought of actually inserting things from his space inside of his mouth. He finished and looked around there were many people, struggling in agony or throwing up. He understood how goblin got his trait. The strength wasn''t enough to survive in this place, you needed a huge amount of luck to survive her cooking. People didn''t come back, to her stand even after being lucky enough to finish the meal with the weakest poison. He decided to go and thank her for a good meal. "Thank you for the meal." She was surprised, the boy ate the strongest poison and stood before her like it was nothing. "Interesting! Hahaha! You are the first one to thank me for food. I am Anasha, people call me poison lily. If you are hungry come to me, I will feed you my the best art!" She meant the best poisons, and she already remembered him and there was no escape. ''At least, there will be some time to talk to...'' [Quest Generated.] [Name: Escape the organization.] [Reward: ???] ''It doesn''t sound well. I am fucked.'' Aron didn''t know, that selections and deadly meals were his last worries inside this world. There was fire elemental hunting him. The training included multiple different kinds of weapons, most of the people focused on one weapon or two. Aron trained all kinds of weapons as the system will aid him with improvement. Another thing was actually, hellish physical training. His body had traits from animals and the instructor decided to create personal training for him. This wasn''t training, they used many kinds of tortures on him to make his body more agile, stronger and the pain was extremely unbearable. Sometimes his mind was wandering into time inside the village, and he regretted his decision coming to this city. ''DON''T FUCKIN LET ME ESCAPE THIS PLACE OR I WILL SLAUGHTER EVERY ONE OF YOU! ONE BY FUCKIN ONE!'' The day of selections was coming, and he was stronger by many folds than Goblin''s brother. The plan wasn''t becoming first, it was to get more strength to prepare for escape. It wasn''t actually a real plan, the person in charge of watching over the recruits was impossible to appraise. ''Why can''t I appraise him?'' [The appraisal level is too low or this person has some kind countermeasure.] 28 The Selections. Selections'' day arrived, and they gathered in the big hall. The instructor stood up in the middle of the hall and said. "Weakest, step up!" It was directed to Aron as he was last in ranking. He stepped up and waited for instructions. "Who will you challenge?" He asked with a smile on his face. The struggle of these kids was very entertaining for him. "The second in ranking!" All of them surprised is this kid insane. He chose one of the strongest around. The second in ranking was Reis and it was most vicious of them all. His specialization was a sword, the weird curves'' sword with poison on its edge. Aron wasn''t afraid of poison and his moderate sword mastery made him like a veteran on the field, that was wielding the sword for years. "You will regret this kiddo," Reis said and stepped up. It was the first time to someone of the weakest challenge someone stronger like Reis. [Reis] [Age: 14] [Race: Human] [Title: Poison''s Edge] [Stats: STR 2.5, AGI 2.9, END 3, INT 4, PER 5, DEX 4] [Talent: Sword(Low-Mortal), Poisons(Low-Mortal)] [Traits: Crazy, Mutated heart, Poison resistance...] [Skills: Mutilation, Beginner Sword Mastery, Manipulation, Poison concocting...] ''It won''t be easy, his skills will be more useful in my hands haha!'' Aron took the training sword from the counter at the side and took a fighting stance. "HA! You don''t have your own weapon. YOU ARE FUCKIN DEAD!" Reis started laughing maniacally and did some swings with his sword. The instructor started the battle and Reis jumped with his sword like a mad beast. Aron just reflected his sword and tried to counter yet it wasn''t easy. Attack after attack, Reis didn''t slow down and Aron was afraid that his low-quality sword will break from this mad streak. ''Time to change the roles.'' He waited for a right moment, Reis attacked, and he used to leap to jump to his side and attack. The thing that happened, made him shocked. "I knew you will do it," Reis said with an emotionless voice the course of his attack. The boy wasn''t prepared for this kind action and tried to defend with the sword. The attack was partially deflected, however, Reis made a cut on his shoulder and blood was dripping from it. Reis was observing, his reaction and Aron didn''t collapse from poison but splashed the blood on the ground and took back stance. "You are quite a tough one. It''s gonna be funnier! PLAY WITH ME, SNOW WHITE!" The poison was his weapon, however, he was a good fighter even without poisoned weapons. ''It''s gonna be problematic. The poison isn''t working, I need to stop the bleeding or effects will be terrible'' He could actually use the sword as a projectile with his maxed throwing, it could make more damage. His opponent wasn''t weak either, he was sure that without the weapon he would be killed in mere seconds. ''I cannot die here!'' "You forced me to do it!" Aron wasn''t sure what will happen after using this skill, yet it was his only option. His veins started bulging and his mind became blank. "ARGHHHH!" It wasn''t a human voice anymore, his eyes were bloodshot. There was vapor coming from his mouth. This wasn''t human anymore, it was beast in the human body. "Interesting!" This sight was something interesting, he remembered the tribe of berserkers another kingdom, and he thought that this boy has their bloodline. Reis had a weird expression, the berserk of this boy wasn''t something predictable, and he tried to come up with some kind of plan. Aron had a sword in his hand and jumped at Reis. Clang! Clang! Clang! Sword in Aron''s hand broke into two pieces. It didn''t end the battle, he took the second part of the sword into second hand and while bleeding attacked again. Clang! Clang! Finally, Reis couldn''t defend this time and Aron pierced the stomach and shoulder. He didn''t stop. Reis tried to struggle, yet stab after stab made him motionless. "You broke my rule, snow-white!" Aron looked at him and his consciousness started coming back to him. He felt that he will fell on the ground, his body couldn''t withstand this kind of power. ''Use 2 points on plunder and plunder the best things from him.'' [Plunder level up] [Plunder lv.6] [Limit of plunder:16] [Plundered 10...] [Mutated Heart] [Desc: Lets user have higher stamina and wounds heal easier.] Aron collapsed on the floor, near the corpse of Reis and fell asleep. Someone stared angirily on intructor and he sighed and shouted. Reis was someone with backing and his death was lost for this person. Aron displayed great potential, yet bersekers were hard to control. None wanted to risk, having the beast as subordinate. "Wait until he wakes up and throws him into Bloody Pit" "Are there any challenges here?" Goblin''s brother couldn''t challenge Aron anymore. Third, challenged first and lost. The selections ended and first was taken from the group. Actually, the person that got all the profits was little fatty with fourth place. Second and third were dead, first left, so he became first without effort. Aron was unconscious inside his cell. He didn''t know, the moment he wakes up is a moment he will enter the worst hell. Amesha was sitting, usually concocting her poisons and didn''t see her favorite subject on the hall. "You, where is a white-haired kid?" "He is unconscious inside his room... I heard that he will be thrown inside the pit due to breaking the rules." Scared boy, said while trembling. "What a regret...only he appreciated my cooking... Whatever... Let''s search for a new subject." Her mood was bad, so all options were deadly. Aron caused the deaths of many recruits that day. The only few could survive because of getting food from the exchange center. After hearing about deadly batch they just decided to exchange their personal weapons for food. If you got out of the group you could do missions, with high luck you could get a real weapon from the exchange center. The next days will be terrible for Aron and this won''t change in the near future. 29 The Bloody Pit! The pit was the place, where all failed experiments where thrown. From poisons too weird mutations, there was saying "Anything is better than being thrown to pit." People didn''t come back from this place. There was one person that came back, the number of changes to his body and physique was too much for a sick organization like this one. Actually, they used as dump side too, they threw there corpses and waste. Most of the time it was covered by a giant stone lid and none was allowed to open it. Aron woke up and his body was in pain. Lucky for him, his arm wasn''t bleeding, and he didn''t bleed out. He wanted to get up and check for any damage but men entered the room. They just took him like bad and carried to another room. "Where are you taking me?" Aron asked with a worried voice. "You shouldn''t wake up. It will be worse than hell kiddo." One of them answered with pity in his voice. ''I don''t understand. This is bullshit. I won the battle.'' They arrived at the destination, it was double sealed door. One of them was holding the boy and other went and started opening the doors. The number of safety measures was colossal for a small room. ''What the fuck? What is this? Pentagon? Or their vault?'' It was confusing, and he didn''t have much strength to run away. The doors opened and the darkroom was revealed. It was freaking empty, no window, no furniture, and only one thing were at the center of the room. It was sealed lid of some kind hole. They opened the lid and immediately foul smell entered the room. It was indescribable by words, it smelled so bad that Aron almost threw up. "End of the road, kid. Take this dagger and finish yourself. You don''t want to enter this place." He passed him a dagger and waited for him to take the action. Aron didn''t want to die and didn''t do anything. "Ok, you will regret this decision." They threw him inside and closed the lid. The depth was more than 50 meters and Aron didn''t know how to actually save himself from death. During the fall, he hit his head and lost consciousness. He ended inside the sludge-like liquid, he survived the fall but effects of this sludge were worse than actually dying. [Highly toxic substances detected in the host body.] [Host body is mutating.] [Due uncontrollable mutation, host race changed into Abomination] [Due body shape changing some skills are unusable.] He woke up, a few days later. It wasn''t him anymore, his body was monstrous. He grew 3 new arms and two more legs. His eyes became blind from poisons and entire skin was like he survived the burning. ''ARHH! WHaaaa IS THISSS!?'' His entire body was suffering from unbearable pain. His mind was muddled and only anger left. "KILL!" [Host consciousness in deep sleep. Entering automatic decision mode.] [Plundering...] He was killing everything on his way. His body became even more monstrous, his consciousness was trapped inside the darkness. His body had only desired to destroy and devour everything on its way. (Rose POV) She killed many during her search, her elemental personality was like newborn exploring new things. The tortures, playing with fire and many other ways of killing her opponents. "WHERE ARE THESE BASTARDS!" She found the base of Blackwind bandits, yet it was empty. There was none to kill and this made her angry. Before her elemental part took full control she needed to finish revenge of human part. She was blindly destroying villages and she got bored. Through tortures, she got some information about black-wind bandits, yet it was useless. The power of elemental was high, yet her body didn''t fully transform, so she was in half elemental form. The speed of normal human and high power of elemental. The news of fire witch destroying the villages got into Blood city. Aside from organization that caught Aron, there were two more organizations. Church, lead by a group of sick believers, with injected angel bloodline. They created a religion around purity and ''god'' that lead them into prosperity. In reality, they were a bunch of hypocrites, that mutated themselves into human-angel hybrids. As an excuse, they used an army of god, this was pretty weird because they used so-called servants of God as a source of the bloodline. Another organization was actually considered by made by nobles and powerful people. Their leader was lighting-elemental, and they didn''t have any target in mind. They did what they wanted, sometimes they destroyed a city or two to test their abilities. The information about the fire witch did arouse the interest of their leader, and he sent two of his people to bring him this woman. He sent one of his elemental subordinates, Earth elemental Ronald and one of his hypnotizers. Elementals could feel the mana of other elements. Rose was releasing the fire mana in every direction as she couldn''t control her power at all. They found her very soon, and she was actually sleeping middle of 100 meters diameters sea of fire. Earth elemental changed into his elemental form and released earth mana to wake up Rose. Fire exploded, he created a shield to cover the hypnotizer and shouted. "We are here to help you. Stop releasing fire!" He said that and Rose was curious because she felt little familiarity with this man as he was part of her race. They started to talk, and she said that until she finds blackwind bandits and boy called Aron she won''t stop searching. She started releasing fire to surround herself, so hypnotizer came closer and said. "If you come with us. We will find them and bring them to you." She started hypnotizing her, Rose was little affected and made an angry stare. "Do it one more time and I will fry you!" She released high-temperature fire around her. ''She is strong like this without fully transforming. I wonder how strong will she be when she finishes her transformation'' The earth elemental thought. His purity wasn''t high, so his power was limited, this girl power seemed unlimited and it wasn''t her limit. 30 No Mercy! Rose entered the city with other people. She wasn''t patient, so they sent one person to search for bandits and Aron whereabouts. The news came fast, the blackwind bandits were actually inside of the city and Aron was seen some time ago. The leader came personally to see the Rose, he was interested in her origins. "Greetings to you! I am John, leader of the Power Order. How can I address a beautiful lady like you?" John said while approaching the Rose. "I am Rose, however, it''s the name of the human part. As I am done with these weaklings, I won''t be Rose anymore." She said while expressing her annoyance. "Don''t you worry! My people already found the bandits, you were searching for. As for the boy, it''s hard to find him as he was captured by other organization" "WHAT OTHER ORGANIZATION! SHOW ME THE WAY AND I WILL BURN THEM TO ASHES!" The immediately, the temperature in the room rose, John didn''t panic. This was a good sign, only high purity elemental had so much power. Her case was even more interesting as she wasn''t completely elemental yet, and she displayed a high amount of mana. "You don''t need to. Although, we are different organizations. I have some friends inside of this organization." He wanted to show his capability to her and ordered people to contact the Death hand insiders. Two hours later. The information came and the person called ''Aron'' was thrown inside the Bloody Pit. It complicated a situation a little. The bloody pit was taboo, none wanted to enter it, the creatures living there weren''t that dangerous. The toxins inside of this place were able to harm even elementals in their pure form. "I am sorry, Rose. This boy, Aron. Was thrown inside the Bloody Pit and none comes back from this place. He is most likely dead." Rose expression was angry, her elemental form wouldn''t be complete thanks to this moron. "FUCKIN HUMANS! I WILL BURN THEM! BUNCH OF USELESS TRASH! YOU ARE USELESS TOO!" She directly insulted the leader. "You are making mistake right now. Little girl!" His eyes started to emit lighting, and he was ready to teach her lesson. "IT''S THIS CITY FAULT! I WILL DESTROY IT!" She jumped through the window while using the flames to stop the fall. She attracted a lot of attention and all the people around gathered. "Guards! We have witch here! CALL HOLY KNIGHTS!" When John saw her jumping, he was little irritated by this situation. "What a drag...Whatever..." He transformed into elemental form. The lighting, the body of lightning. "Let''s start a party!" He jumped and helped Rose with destruction. (Aron POV) Aron or you could say his body, conquered the entire Bloody pit. His body transformed beyond any recognition. Multiple legs, arms, weird horns, and many more beastly features. His consciousness was still inside of darkness. There wasn''t direct exit from the bloody pit, it was closed net of tunnels built by Death Hand. It didn''t stop him from trying to dig a new tunnel. It took him a few days to dig something that was connected to some dungeon. The desire to destroy everything and everywhere was too strong. It started to kill all prisoners, guards and finally, it reached the surface. Boom! The doors were destroyed and started to move towards the closest living beings. It wasn''t walking, it was a disgusting way of moving. Snakes were graceful in comparison to this bizarre creature. "FOOOD!" It made a weird sound when it saw the human. This wasn''t just an attack, it was predator hunting a prey. Strength, speed and high immunity to physical attacks made killing it, almost impossible. The Church had two calls, one to elementals destroying the city and another to monster eating the humans. They sent some knights, yet it wasn''t enough to stop beast with the system to plunder the other creatures from their traits and powers. It had a perfect environment to grow into the strongest mutant, thanks to hunting other mutants. The battle between the holy knight and elementals was quite lost for the church. Fighting on two different battlefields wasn''t for a small force. They decided to lure the monster to elementals, it wouldn''t be easy, yet sending all knights to death wasn''t an option. They used believers to lure it, almost all of them died during this process. It wasn''t important, the monster met elementals and the battle between church and elementals stopped. "What is that thing?" John was surprised, it was the first time seeing something like this. Dreadful aura of this beast was something out of this world. "It''s ugly, let''s kill it!" Rose said while throwing the fireball into the creature. Elementals came closer to the beast to attack with short range attacks. "ROOOSE?" When beast saw the elemental girl, consciousness woke up for a moment and took control of this thing. "Who are you? Why do you know the name of this body?" Asked fire witch with the confusion of her face. "I AAAAM ARRRRON! KILL MEEEE PLEASE! GIIVEEE ME MERCY!!! I WON"T CONTROL THIS BODY LONG AND IT DESIRES TO KILL EVERYTHING ON ITS PATH!" The rest of Aron''s consciousness was struggling to keep control over the evil desires. "HAHAHAHA! I finally found you! YOU TRASHBAG! DIE? NO, LET IT LIVE. IT''S Worse THAN DEATH!" She was happy and said. "Are you satisfied with this?" The elemental form said and another voice came outside of her. "Yes, it''s better for the sins that he committed against my village and my family. Let it live! From now on, you are this body owner." Her voice faded away and strong waves of mana started surging around. Her body started to burn and turn into the ashes. "FINALLY, COMPLETE! HAHAHAHA!" The surroundings of her body started to turn into ashes as the temperature was too high. She looked at holy knights and said. "DISAPPEAR!" The wave of fire evaporated them with few buildings behind them. "AND YOU, AND THIS THING!" Aron wasn''t in control again and beast attacked her. "YOU DARE ATTACK THIS QUENN!" She threw a giant fireball into the monster. The beast was almost dead, the smell of burned flesh penetrated the air. It wasn''t the end, beast started to regenerate and attacked again. "FOUL CREATURE!" She attacked with many fireballs at once. It was like hell opened inside of this city. Most of the people were already dead from lack of oxygen or burns. Creature struggled yet, it regenerative capabilities couldn''t keep up with the firepower of its opponent. It turned to ashes. "HAHAHA! I SHALL PURGE THIS FOUL PLACE IN NAME OF..." She floated two hundred meters and created fire rain to turn this place into dust. [...] 31 The Shame and Anger. Soul of Marcus appeared inside the same space as time after the first death. "You disappointed me, little one. You actually didn''t survive the year, with the help of system." "I think, I shouldn''t give you this chance in the first place. Although, I enjoyed the moment of your death and ''thing'' that you have become." "Killed by a little girl with fire powers. What a shame..." ''FUCK YOU!'' Aron tried to scream, the result was the same as at first time. "Lame... You are useless." "Ok, I will grant you one more chance. You are trash... This time, I won''t seal any of your memories. Another thing is there will be little changes in the system... The most functions will be sealed, yet databases will be untouched. Hmm, it''s your last chance. For real, even if reincarnation guy wanted to get your soul back. It will be destroyed. This time, I separate Aron''s soul from the cycle of reincarnation. As your soul was separated from the cycle of reincarnation previous time, and I fused it with his soul." "I have a better idea! I will put you into similar ''thing'' and force you to watch its performance for eternity! HAHAHA!" "Give me some, entertainment little one!" Aron was mad, all the memories from being abomination resurfaced in his mind. The worst part was actually wasting the first opportunity and being naive. The soul was fully fused with the body, yet his memories weren''t. The memories were important as they are a source of experience. The soul of Marcus wandered to the body of Aron, which was almost dead. The time was reversed and he had another chance. [Body found.] [Binding body with a soul.] [Binding complete.] [Upgrading system.] ''Here we go again!'' His brain was full of memories from two lifetimes. ''Upgrade? My performance was bad and I got upgrade on my cheat. Motivation? Or this entity thought that without better cheat I won''t be able to entertain it.'' His mind focused on the motives of the entity, that granted him this opportunity. The wounds on his body were healing by the system. [Upgrade complete.] [Most of the functions are reset or locked.] ''I want to know more about these things, system.'' [Starting from the simplest things like status system.] [Skills, traits and talents reset. Appraisal, plunder and Let''s gamble are now lv.1.] [Most of the skills and other things are saved in Plunder database.] [The Personal Space locked. The host will unlock it by finishing the quest.] [Quest system upgraded. There will be more quests and there will be different kinds of quests.] [Professions reset. The host needs to level up them again.] [Subspace level won''t be reset. The current passive world energy generation will be 5.] [Dexterity and agility will be fused into one stat from now on.] [Trait Genius deleted as host isn''t worth this trait anymore.] His body healed, so he decided to go to his hut and sleep there. There were so many things to do, the next day. [Name: Aron] [Title: White-haired trash.] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/??] [Bloodline: Human(??), ??(??)] [Profession: None] [Space: Locked] [WE: 30] [Stats: STR 0.6, DEX 0.7, END 1.3, INT 3,PER 20, CHA 0.4, ART 0.1] [Talents: None] [Traits: Malnourished] [Skills: Plunder lv.1, Appraisal lv.1(1/500), Let''s Gamble! lv.1] The exhaustion of the body made his comeback hard, yet he didn''t want to sleep outside. His hut was in the same shitty state, still, it was better than sleeping on bare ground. Sunlight got through the holes in the roof and woke him up at dawn. He stood up and his stomach started to protest. ''I am hungry. Rose has porridge, I don''t have other choices then. If I don''t eat right now, my body will be too weak to work.'' The skills disappeared, yet there was knowledge about most of them inside of his mind. He ran to the hut, theoretically, he used the running techniques but there was a difference between theory and practice. [Running skill generated. Running lv.1(50/100)] The knowledge gave you something to rely on. You didn''t learn something from scratch but you were imprinting these techniques to muscle memory. "Hello, Rose!" She was surprised like the previous time. However, this time, Aron didn''t talk much as before. [Quest Generated.] [Name: Real friend!] [Goal: Improve relationship with Rose. You relied on her kindness for too long.] [Reward: 1 stat point] ''She doesn''t look like fire throwing witch. I wonder what caused such change.'' [Name: Rose] [Age: 14] ''Oh, the first level of appraisal isn''t so useful.'' He ate and thanked her, after that he left. Wasting time on chitchat wasn''t his style. ''I want to see plunder database!'' [Traits: Eagle''s eyes, Abomination''s Body, Improved senses, Mutated Heart, Poison Immunity(Mortal), Poison Digestion, Venom Immunity(Mortal), Strong Legs, Strong Arms,...] [Talents: Bow, Blacksmith, Sword, Mace, Axe] [Skills: Blacksmithing, Smelting, Leap, Berserk, Poison Making, Manipulation,...] [Bloodlines: Angel(10%)] ''Filter out, everything with Abomination in name, traits that will bring weird transformations in my body.'' The most problematic was actually the prices of these traits. He was interested in Mutated Heart as it brought a boost in endurance and regeneration. 100 thousand World Energy. He didn''t gather, that much in his previous life. [The prices are high, the host shouldn''t complain. You did gather more points as Abomination, as everything that you devoured was converted into world energy.] ''Let''s forget about this memory. I need to raise my stats and unlock the space.'' His mind had knowledge from the maximum level of farming, it was his first call. He decided to create a small field near his hut. As he didn''t have any tool but it didn''t stop him, he plucked the weeds. It didn''t take long and farming skill appeared. [Farming skill generated. Farming lv.1(233/1000)] ''It won''t take long, I get hundreds of points every action as it''s not learning it''s only getting technique from memories.'' [Farmer profession unlocked. Do you wish to activate it?] ''Yes and from now on automatically activate every new profession I unlock. Don''t ask me every time.'' The farmer increased strength, endurance, and dexterity. These stats need to be raised to at least the ordinary human level. He appraised all the things, it was important to raise skill back to 5th level. The previous time, he didn''t actually appraise people much. This time, it will change. [Farmer lv.0 (1/1000)] He picked the piece of rock with a sharp side and used it to plow the ground. Proficiency raised fast, and after half an hour of work there his farmer leveled twice. Farming was already 7th level. There were no seeds of crops inside of his hut, it didn''t matter much. The most important thing wasn''t resources but the ability to adapt to any kind of situation. No seeds? No problem, he started to plant weeds inside of his field. The idea was ridiculous, still, he got points and his body got little strength. Farming skill was maxed, and farmer leveled up again. These things brought him to boost of 0.3 in strength and increase of 0.15 in dexterity and endurance. [Name: Aron] [Stats: STR 0.9, AGI 0.85, END 1.45, INT 3, CHA 0.4, ART 0.1] ''Don''t show maxed skills. I don''t need to see them anymore.'' The strength close to average and endurance above average. He rested for a moment and decided to go to Roger''s Farm. ''He helped my previous time. Work there isn''t too hard and I will get food. It''s a win-win situation for both of us at this time I am good at farming.'' "Good morning. I am searching for work, do you need a pair of hands on your farm?" Aron asked Roger, with confidence. Although, he was ugly and malnourished. "Hmm. I need someone, yet are you sure that you can handle physical labor with this kind of body?" He scanned him, as he looked like a skeleton with a little layer of skin thanks to malnourished body. "I am sure. You won''t regret if you hire me." The boy said with confidence and Roger looked at him, with a weird expression. "Ok, whatever. I am Roger. You will start by cleaning the coop, and we will see if you are useful in any kind of another area later." He said with emotionless voice and pointed the coop. "I won''t disappoint you, boss." The cleaning was much easier, this time he could actually finish it after a few hours. [Cleaning lv.MAX] "You have something in you. I didn''t expect these tiny arms have so much strength in them! Hahaha! Clean yourself and come eat." He ate meal fast and started to plan things inside of his mind. The most important thing was to actually raise his stats and unlock space. The system didn''t state what''s the requirement to unlock the space. He decided to focus on improving his body and reputation among villagers first. There were two professions, that had synergy with each other. The sculptor and carpenter, double improvement with half of the effort. "Is there anything to do? I can do anything!" He said, actually he knew what to do. It didn''t point to actually go and do something. You needed to build your image inside someone''s head with time. "Hmm. There actually is something. I want to expand fields and rocks need to be moved..." During the work, he was lucky to increase the strength through the work. [Unlocking the trait: Adaptable.] [Unlocking the trait: Hardworking] ''I got them back. It''s good!'' He worked on Roger''s farm for 3 days, and they even sowed the fields together. His farmer reached 5th level and it was an important choice to make. The previous time, he used this point to improve his terrible artistic sense. The point will be used on charisma, it''s hard to increase with jobs that he knew. Charisma influenced not the only appearance, but it also influenced the presence itself. If you had very high charisma, people would trust you without reason. [Charisma 1.4] It was increased, yet his body will change slowly within a few hours. The next step was getting other jobs. [Name: Aron] [Title: White-haired trash.] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/??] [Bloodline: Human(??), ??(??)] [Profession: Farmer lv.5(32673/50K)] [Space: Locked] [WE:153] [Stats: STR 1.3, DEX 1, END 1.6, INT 3, PER 20, CHA 1.4, ART 0.1] [Talents: None] [Traits: Malnourished, Adaptable, Hardworking] [Skills: Plunder lv.1, Appraisal lv.5(Locked), Let''s Gamble! lv.1] Author Notice: It''s the beginning of the second volume, I will decrease the daily release to 1-2 chapters from tomorrow onward. 32 Quests? The Roger''s fields were sowed after 4 days of work. He was quite surprised by boy skills, and he decided to let him live inside of his house. Everyone in the village knew Aron the White-haired Trash and knowledge that he lived inside of the broken ruin wasn''t something new to Roger. [Name: Roger] [Title: Retired Hunter, Crazy Roger] [Race: Human] [Age: 56] [Profession: Hunter, Farmer, Carpenter] [Traits: Ruthless, Agile, Old, ...] [Talents: Bow, Dagger, Hunting] [Skills: Intermediate Bow Mastery, Hunter''s Archery, Roger''s Footwork, ...] ''I can live here, that''s quite good. I can actually get a chisel and get two new professions.'' His worst problems were solved and it was time to improve his reputation in the village. The sculpting was planned to evening. His first targets were farmers as sowing the fields was most important. He got rid of malnutrition, so his body became little muscular and his face could be considered as slightly handsome. [Quest Generated] [Name: The perfect helper!] [Goal: Help 10 people with their work.] [Reward: Reputation in the village, 500 WE] [Time Limit: 7 days] [Penalty: -0.5 to random stat] ''New quest system, it will help me get the WE. Time limit? Penalty? Lucky, these are not high.'' His first stop was Greg place. This man reared the sheep and had big fields to sow. "Good morning. I am searching for work. I already learned to farm from Roger, so you won''t regret hiring me." His appearance changed and confidence overwhelmed Greg. [Name: Greg] [Title: None] [Race: Human] [Age: 31] [Profession: Rancher, Farmer] [Talent: None] [Traits: Weak-willed, Coward, Hardworking...] [Skills: Animal Handling, Farming, Escape...] "I...Ok, what do you want in exchange?" Asked the Greg, as his voice was already shaking. "Maybe leftovers from sowing? I can take some wool too." It wasn''t much as Greg farm was huge and there are many hours of work ahead. "OOOK. I will give you some wool and some seeds if there are leftovers." They didn''t waste time and Aron started to prepare fields. The thing that would usually take three days, Aron did in freaking three hours. Greg almost fainted as he came back from shearing the sheeps. After a short break, he started sowing. It wasn''t like sowing at all, it was art. Every seed fell perfectly into place, that he prepared. It would be normal if he were walking but he was freaking running. This way, he finished work for two weeks in half of the day. Greg was watching his field with a weird expression and said. "Kid, you are freak..." He ate lunch with Greg and took some wool and seeds as payment. It was 2 PM and he could actually help two smaller farms before evening. Putting a point in charisma made him convincing and people didn''t treat him as parasite trying to suck out their precious blood. Farmer was level 7, leveling it became faster and more efficient than ever. Later in the evening. The youth entered the room prepared by Roger. It was the same room, he still needed to clean it by himself. It wasn''t a problem at all, he could use these things and it wasn''t a problem. A half hour later, his room was clean, and he was already cleaning chisel from dust. This time, he decided to learn all weapons. From sword to spear, he trained some of these weapons in training grounds of Death''s Hand. His first sculpture was a wooden blade with teeth. The result surprised him and the system. [Toothed Wooden Blade] [Quality: Good(Creator overcame his artistic sense and created a really good piece of art.)] [Due to high achievement in art. Host art stat will be readjusted.] [Art: 1.35] [Sculpting Skill Generated. Sculpting lv.1(1/500)] [Beginner Sculptor profession unlocked and activated.] [Woodworking Skill Generated. Woodworking lv.4(523/2500)] [Carpenter profession unlocked and activated.] ''Haha. That''s a good blade, if it was made from metal I would consider using it in real battles.'' The kid didn''t stop there, his chisel was moving until it became dark. [Carpenter lv.4/Beginner Sculptor lv.3] [Woodworking lv.8/Sculpting lv.6] There were still 7 people before finishing the quest, he couldn''t slack off the next day. A new day started from training martial arts and throwing, two hours after dawn he visited next households. The rumors of his skills actually spread from yesterday and people were happy that he came to help them. Thank easier approach, he was 3 people from goal and his farmer reached the lv.8. He got animal handling skill back, it will be useful in getting back the animal tamer profession and unlocking the rancher profession. ''I wonder, why I didn''t get it last time.'' [The rancher needs a host to level up skill to level 5 and work with animals at least 100 hours.] ''You are right, most of the things system did for me.'' He maxed the sculpting and woodworking this night. The improvement of skills didn''t bring any satisfaction or pleasure. His mind was eager to learn new things, this experience was boring. [Carpenter lv.6/Beginner Sculptor lv.5] ''A two stat points, let''s improve dexterity. It affects my overall speed and flexibility. Getting an upgrade in strength isn''t a bad idea either.'' [STR: 2.6, DEX 2.75] [Hidden quest complete] [Name: Above average!] [Goal: Get all of your stats above 1.5] [Reward: Unlocking the space.] ''YEAH! I got these back.'' The inside of the space was different. There was only a farming area and it was empty. [WE: 294] ''Start sowing the crops and vegetables. I need to get my things back.'' A next day, morning. Aron started the day from tying himself to tree and diving in one of the wells, in outskirts of the village. This was a weird action and if someone saw that, they would think that he is committing suicide, or he lost his mind. His goal was to absorb enough water, to create a water body inside of the space. [High amounts of water entering space detected. Creating lake, well and wetlands.] He climbed the rope and went inside to change his wet clothes. After changing clothes, it was time to get to work. The quest wouldn''t finish itself, there were many villagers and world energy would be a great help in farming space. Speed and strength made his work fast and efficient. People gave him a new title ''Handsome Freak''. He decided that the last person in this quest will be a carpenter. His woodworking was way better than John''s and everyone wanted his help. "Hello. Carpenter, do you need my help?" He greeted John, pretending to not know him. "Handsome Freak at my doors. It''s a pleasure to finally meet you. HAHAHA!" John didn''t change at all, he saw a business opportunity. Aron would do his job and he could take care of something else. The price would be low as some wood logs. "I am actually good at woodworking so it will be a nice job." Aron boasted and started working, he finished the job for two weeks in one afternoon. "It''s breathtaking, you are an insane kid. Although, I was similar at your age..." As payment, he took some logs and hickory wood for bow making. [Carpenter lv.8] [Quest Complete] [+500 WE] ''It''s time to become a hunter again.'' [Name: Aron] [Title: Handsome Freak.] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/??] [Bloodline: Human(??), ??(??)] [Profession: Farmer lv.9(59/500K), Beginner Sculptor lv.5(42K/100K), Carpenter lv.8(421K/1M)] [Space: Farming Area, Lake, Storage] [WE:521] [Skill Points: 2] [Stats: STR 2.8, DEX 3.05, END 1.8, INT 3, PER 20, CHA 1.9, ART 1.95] [Talents: None] [Traits: Adaptable, Hardworking] [Skills: Plunder lv.1, Appraisal lv.7(77K/250K), Let''s Gamble! lv.1, Animal Handling lv.3(5K/10K) ] 33 Not a chapter. 5321 I will slowly release edited second volume chapters. I cannot spend much time on this right now. I will be free from this semester around 26.06.19, so probably in next month story will be back for real. Thank you for your support! Your mediocre author with issues, Sad Wanderer. 33 The Overall Improvements 1 . It was his second week of this lifetime, and many villagers didn''t sow their fields yet. The chief was sitting in his courtyard and pondering about something. "Good morning." Aron decided to greet him with polite voice. Marcus understood crowd mentality pretty well, Carl couldn''t stop villagers from bullying him. It would be useless, those people have high stress on their shoulders and no place to relieve it. Nothing was certain in middle ages, and you could just make small cut and die from infection few days later. "Good morning, Aron." Village chief was little surprised by sudden visit of a white-haired boy. Everything that happens inside of village is known by almost all inhabitants. Number of people is too few and simple-minded group like them like to gossip about all events. ''Hmmm. What should I tell him? Let''s make up some stories about passing wise man!'' Getting chief support would allow him to control settlement without force. "I meet strange man outside village. He gave me knowledge about creating miracles." The white-haired boy stopped and took long breath. "This knowledge belongs to me. I could share this knowledge with Amber village. There is only one issue!" Aron didn''t continue on purpose, and his idea was simple. Manipulate chief into his own plan, and rest of things will be easy. "I heard about your creations from villagers. What''s the problem?" Carl asked with anticipation, and those things could improve quality of lives of his people. "It''s simple. I have no reason to help this village at all. Furthermore, I hate most of ''your'' people." His voice became little emotionless. He looked straight into chief''s eyes and said. "Tell me. Why should I improve lives of monsters like you? Give me one reason." Carl couldn''t believe his ears. Those words were too extreme, yet they were truth. Most of villagers were stupid and bloodthirsty. "I¡­I don''t know. They did terrible things¡­Calling them monsters is little too much." Chief tried to defend his people. "Stop you bullshit. You weren''t one punched and kicked by those bastards. You don''t know how it feel!" His voice carried strong anger and resentment, Carl started to regret his past actions. He could try to stop them, and maybe things would turn out differently. "I didn''t cross this village yet. Things are simple, you will accept me as your apprentice and cooperate with me." His tone became little threatening. "Aron! Stop your nonsense! I don''t need to hear any more words¡­I thought you will change into new leaf! You come to me and threaten me!" Carl wasn''t stupid, offer was tempting but kid had nothing to prove his words. "I gave you chance! Imagine that you missed opportunity to save their lives from constant fear of death!" It would be boring if chief could be manipulated like child, so Aron continued. "You are old. There won''t be any herbalist to take your place in future. How many years will they survive without you? One? Two? Maybe, three?" Something inside Carl snapped, his son died many years ago during winter. Death claimed life of his only son and apprentice. He couldn''t die with consciousness of leaving all those people to their deaths. Being "YOU WIN! If you are able to prove those words. I will do everything in my power!" None would follow things without proof, still boy already planted seed inside of Carl''s mind and rest of the work was slowly cultivating the thought. "Let''s start from¡­" ''I will slowly build my reputation and gather resources and find a way to ensure my safety.'' The village position was pretty bad, the earth wasn''t fertile, no unique resources or anything special and forest not far from there. Good hunting area was a good thing for hunters, yet the village lacked in this aspect too. Roger gave up hunting and Casper had a daughter and no male descendants. He could teach someone outside of the family, yet hunting was dangerous work and most of the parents preferred their children to work on a farm or ranch. Introducing crop rotation system, hygiene importance and few other important techniques or methods made chief extremely shocked. Those things weren''t complicated or hard, most of those were basic knowledge in modern world. ''I will deal with blacksmith myself. He will pay for his actions.'' Knowing person behind scenes allowed him to plan his next actions. His plan was to build small factory for widows and process his plant matter with recently created devices. Introducing new devices needed to be done slowly, minds of villagers were extremely limited and weak-willed. ''I need to check library and input some knowledge to earn those points.'' Anything that could improve his ability to survive was good at this point. Library contained knowledge from many dimensions and worlds, and so simple information about Destia should be there too. [Welcome to the library.] [Chopping +20 KP] [Woodworking +25KP] [Beginner Sculpting +25KP] [¡­] [KP balance: 673] ''Search for books related to Destia world.'' Power of information was bigger than people thought, lack of knowledge about world could paralyze his further plans. Existence of weird creatures and people with paranormal abilities defied common sense from Earth. He couldn''t risk getting killed once again because of his stupidity or lack of knowledge. [142 books found. 138 books are out of your league. Do you wish to display the remaining 4 books?] ''Yes!'' [Basics of Destia: Races] [Desc: Part of Basics of Destia written by Flashy Traveler. Book describes races and their features.] [Price: 200KP] [Basics of Destia: Common Language] [Desc: Part of Basics of Destia written by Flashy Traveler. You can learn the common language from it.] [Price: 100KP] [Heavenly Emperor Dragon, Killing God King! (Novel)] [Desc: Book was written by Paradix Dragoon. It''s fiction written without proper knowledge about the world.] [Price:50KP] [Cooking book] [Desc: Cooking book. There is a chapter about Destia cuisine.] [Price:250KP] ''Buy races and common language. Other books are waste of points.'' Books from library were in digital form. Luckily system could display them outside of library with simple display screen. ''I will read those books later. I want this herb from Carl.'' Previously, he didn''t take it and Carl had hidden it pretty well. White-haired boy checked Carl''s house from far, it was empty. Chief was taking care of something in the village and it was free to enter. He jumped through the window and took the container with herb. Inserting small part of herb into space and putting container into same spot made his deed untraceable. [Detected spiritual plant.] [Fire Spark Flower] [Desc: Low level spiritual herb with ability to trigger hidden potential of animals and beasts.] ''Nice. Let''s cultivate it.'' This plant gave chance of evolution to simple animals. Evolution was extreme effect, animal could just mutate a little. It didn''t matter much, having ranch and farming space allowed him to test effects of this plant as much he wanted. [Adding Herbal Garden to Farming Space] [Farming Space level up] [Farming Space lv.4] [Size: 40 ha] [Time acceleration: 20] ''Interesting! Infinite resources!'' Good news about upgrade of space and improving world energy generation made him happy. 34 The Overall Improvements 2 . He could finally get some basics about this world, as villagers didn''t know much. The book was in electronic form, thanks to the system, reading was possible anywhere. The contents were written in another language, probably the author''s native language. ''If I contribute something, in what language is it added?'' [It''s the Adean Language. You created Destia''s Branch, and it uses your current language.] ''Check any information connected to planet Earth or Milky Way.'' [There are books written by aliens. You have access to a few of them. Library locked as your knowledge level is low. It won''t give you knowledge above your permissions to not disrupt the world''s balance.] ''I already have some knowledge. We can go around these rules anyway. I can recreate some modern level skills and upgrade the knowledge level.'' [It won''t be easy. Yet it''s possible. You should work harder, or you will die once again like a rat.] The book described races of this world in a really interesting way. There was information about many things that you wouldn''t really expect from the book. It described four mayor races and eight rarer races. The most common was an ordinary human, and most of this world is full of humans. The weakest race, basically humankind only dominated the continents through dirty tricks and benefiting from wars of other races. The author made many different quite experiments on humans and described them as a good labor force. The only positive thing about humans of this world was actually a possibility to crossbreeding with other races. The second race in his book were actually elves, a race of nature-loving human hunters. If an elf didn''t kill a human on sight, it meant that he or she was blind. The author didn''t state the reason for this hatred, probably some kind grudge for burning some world-tree or something. Elves could communicate with nature, their ability to blend with surrounding was on a different level. He performed a series of tests to check this particular ability and the only injury of level ripping off the arm could make them clearly visible. Their lifespan was three to four times longer than human''s lifespan. The third main race was actually orcs, and these ugly motherfuckers were everywhere. They only purpose was to dominate, **** and plunder. This race didn''t care about anything, besides honor of the warrior. The author tried many times to force them to use dirty tricks to kill. They preferred to die than becoming damned by dirtying the warrior''s honor. They had many variations, with many different abilities related to their variations. The fourth most important race were giants, as none wanted to have war with them. There were not many of them in this world, still, they could stop wars by shouting. They could live for ages, and offending them was equally stupid as trying to court elf as human. Their height was like rings inside a tree, the bigger giant was meant that he was there when your ancestor wasn''t even born. Experiments showed high resistance to pain and high healing factor. The rarer races were angels, demons, shiran, goblins, fairies, elementals, beast-kind, and dwarfs. Angels were funny, they wielded the light element. This was the last thing common with Earth''s vision of an angel. These creatures weren''t anyone servant and their favorite hobby was collecting eyeballs. The writer saw multiple times, angel blinding his opponent and gauging his eyes. Although their magic had healing spells and many other different kinds of buffs. The real angels rarely used them on different races. The experiment proved high sadistic tendencies of multiple specimens. There was a case of an angel healing his victim to ensure survival for more tortures. Demons were a race of warriors, the author portrayed them as an idiotic race of muscle heads. They loved food more than everything. There were stories of specimen stoping middle of battle because of finding cooking ingrednent. Nothing could stop them from gettting their hands tasty food, there are rumors about demons stealing fruits from tree of life before its destruction. Demon specialize in dark arts as their element is darkness. Shiran race was weird race, and they were good at martial arts and weapons. They had a lot of interesting techniques and other races attacked them only because of greed. There weren''t much of them left during his expeditions, so the author didn''t make any trials on them. As there was a rule about protecting endangered races in dimensional traveler''s codex. Dwarfs were hard to meet as they lived deep underground, and they were focused on blacksmithing and other crafts. They had slaves called goblins, however, there was some weird civil war and goblins escaped. The fairies are rare and most hunted as fairy dust was the greatest narcotic of all this world. The beast-kind was actually common as humans. Some of them looked like a result of forbidden love between humans and beasts. He described the most common variations and most interesting variations. The author didn''t describe his meeting with elementals, yet has written a few kinds and their main trait. Elementals loved power and it was like they were scared of something and searched for more and more power. There were many moderately them and even mix-bloods. After describing some races, he mentioned some of his observations and cataloged some bloodlines in the respective race. ''Please, no beast-kind!'' [Race: Human/Shiran] [Bloodline: Human(Drevon Clan 15% - Not Awakened), Shiran(White blood 13% - Not Awakened)] ''What means of this % next to the name of bloodline?'' [It displays the purity of bloodline. For example, your human bloodline purity is 23%. There is a chance of awakening this bloodline, though the lower purity of bloodline the lower chance of awakening.] ''Shiran. Interesting, I wonder if I meet anyone from this race.'' He was pondering about why his bloodlines sucked so hard. The 13% was enough to manifest, white hair and red eyes. However, not enough for any talent or anything useful. ''Can I improve the purity of my bloodline?'' [Yes. The system can purify your bloodline with world energy.] ''Price?'' [From 1% to 5%. 1K for 1%] [From 5% to 10% 5K for 1%] [From 10% to 20% 10K for 1%] [From 20% to 50% 100K for 1%] [From 50% to 75% 1M for 1%] [From 75% to 90% 100M for 1%] [From 90% to 99% 10 B for 1%] [From 99% to 100% ???] ''The prices are ridiculous...'' [Don''t complain, most of the bloodlines are giving special traits and unique powers. The system allows you to get bloodlines to high purity as you were born with them. Bloodlines artificially fused into the body are weaker and the host doesn''t need to worry about this.] ''Both of my bloodlines are pathetically low. I don''t doubt weakness of this body. Tossing away weaker children is normal for many specimens as they wouldn''t survive in a harsh world.'' Aron could understand decision of his father. He wouldn''t be able to survive in the world of nobles, having protect him was too bothersome. 35 The Overall Improvements 3 . Time passed, and Carl slowly introduced all things to stupid villagers. Aron started exchanging some of his ''inventions'' to villagers. Simple plows, threshers, spinning wheel and simple piston pump. Most of villagers were grateful, still some of them started to fear. Those simple-minded people got suppressed by chief and other villagers. Aron could focus on improving his body and skills. His brain was improved trait but still he needed to train his memorization and perception. [Fast Reading +30KP] [Instant Reading +50KP] [Fast Writing +30KP] [Calligraphy lv.0(0/500)] [Memorization +20KP] [Improved Memorization +40KP] [Perfect Memorization +80KP] [Trait Perfect Memory generated.] ''I could digitize some of languages from Earth. It can be sold to library for points.'' Getting more skills couldn''t help and points could be exchanged for knowledge. Marcus knew five languages Russian, Chinese, English, German and Portuguese. [5 Languages + 100KP] The world energy accumulation increased thanks to increasing size of space, getting new traits wasn''t problem anymore. Space could make around 500 WE every hour, so getting couple thousands was matter of waiting few days. Training his archery, bow making and trying to create new tools with smelted copper from tools. His schedule was full of work and thanks to workshop area, and all of this was possible. His bow mastery reached advanced level, increasing proficiency became tedious and slow. White-haired boy focused on learning other things like dagger and axe. Reaching maximum level with many professions allowed him to unlock new paths. [Apprentice Herbalist +20 KP] [Carpenter +30KP] [Farmer +35 KP] [¡­] [Balance: 953KP] Roger was important figure in this village, and people respected him even if they didn''t really show him in any way. Anyone would break if his family was murdered by bandits, so none cared about behavior of old man. Aron built new bow and decided to ask Roger for guidance once more. A boy didn''t need acceptance to become a hunter, he needed techniques of old man. ''I need to convince old man to teach me all his techniques.'' Roger had more to offer than simple mobile archery. Another thing was learning from him was perfect excuse for future development, instead of creating a new fake story. Aron actually could tell people that he was taught by Roger. He went to Roger with a self-created hickory bow, and it was personally created by him for his current body. The improvement of stats brought the problem of adjusting the bow parameters from time to time. "Hello, Roger. I have a question for you." It was important to persuade an old farmer in some way. "Hello, kiddo. What''s the problem?" Roger answered with his usual annoyed voice and looked at boy with irritation. "I want to learn to be a hunter from you." Aron tried to be polite as possible but blunt at the same time. "Why from me? I am retired and it''s not going to change!" His voice carried anger inside of it. He hated himself for not being there to protect his family. "I would tell you some fake story about compassion and other bullshit. I don''t really want to lie to you. I will become hunter if you teach me or not. I wanted to show respect to you by becoming your apprentice. However I won''t beg you!" Aron knew Roger''s personality very well, lying would only arouse more suspicions from old hunter. "Ohhh! You are so cocky! Show me what you got kid! I will test your skill and if you are up to my standards I will teach you one thing or two." Roger decided to give him a chance to prove himself with bow. [Quest Generated] [Name: Roger''s trials] [Goal: Pass Roger''s trial.] [Reward: Roger''s Recognition and support.] [Penalty: Roger will throw you out of his house and hunter profession will be locked forever!] ''Fuck, I hope it''s not something stupid.'' His test could be archery test or something made for him to give up. The man stared at the boy with a weird expression and said. "You already built your own bow. Right now, it''s time to prove if you are worth being its owner."It was quite surprise that kid could build his own bow already. He pointed at tree 50 meters away and said. "I want you to hit this tree." He gave him 10 arrows and said. "You have only 10 chances, you only need to hit a tree with arrow" Aron''s mouth turned into weird smile and he started to shoot at tree. All arrows pierced tree''s trunk in the same spot, it was display of skill of archery as arrows flew extremely fast and each arrow hit the previous one. Old man didn''t care about method of hitting the tree with a bow, the point was to prove that you can adapt in any situation. He would accept even if boy used his hand to hit the tree. "Did you give up? What the...." Sight of layered arrows made him extremely shocked, this result was beyond talent. "Are you sure, it''s your first time using the bow?" "I did train for few days after I built this bow. Why are you asking? Are my results passable?" Aron couldn''t say that he is training for weeks because of time flow cheat. Simple lie would suffice for time being. The old man had a weird dilemma inside his head. ''What''s a wrong old man? Did I freaking pass?'' Aron was little impatient, becoming his apprentice was a formality. "Ok, kid. You have talent in the bow, however, hunting isn''t all about shooting with the bow. The second part of the trial is to land hit on me during a spar." "Are you sure? I am quite strong, I don''t want to hurt you." Aron was worried about his strength and speed. It wouldn''t be actually a challenge at all. "Don''t be cocky and come at me!" Roger said it with anger. The kid challenged his dignity and if he didn''t teach him a lesson, he wouldn''t be himself. Aron decided to end it fast with his high speed. His fist was nearing Roger''s stomach, yet something weird happened. Roger dodged and kicked him into an ass. "That''s weird!" "Speed isn''t everything, kiddo! COME AGAIN!" Roger shouted with a mocking voice. This time, the boy used martial arts. The first punch was faint, the old man thought it will be another dumb attack, so he sidestepped and used his leg to kick Aron again. "NOT THIS TIME!" Aron just followed behind him to catch him, catch him unprepared. He threw a kick at Roger with his all speed. The man was surprised, still, he stopped his attack and evaded the kick. Aron didn''t stop, he attacked one time after another. Roger dodged all of these attacks, though his expression became paler after every attack. "STOP! I am too old for this! KID, YOUR STAMINA IS INHUMAN!" He sat on the ground and started panting heavily. "You might be strong and fast. If I wasn''t old, you would be already dead. Your the fighting style is interesting, yet you lack experience..." "Sigh. I will teach you, how to be a hunter and even more. I will teach you most of my fighting techniques." [Quest Complete.] "When can we start?" Aron admired the fighting skills of Roger. Another appraisal didn''t show anything new. ''I don''t understand...'' [You rely too much on the system. These values are only numbers. Another thing, appraisal level isn''t high enough.] [Host shouldn''t rely on these things like this or you will die fast.] ''You are right...Not everything can be digitalized into numeric values. Emotions, experience, and many other things. I am a perfect example, my knowledge isn''t digitalized.'' [Not digitalized yet. You need to work harder host!] ''You are right! LET''S WORK HARDER!'' The determination sparked inside of his eyes. Roger stood up and they went inside the house. Roger started telling a story, and Aron listened as it was quite interesting. "I was a young hunter, the world outside was interesting. There was the possibility of joining the army, so I volunteered. The youth and inexperience made me think that war is fun. Besides me, few more kids from villages joined the army. Every new recruit must go through military training, as none wanted to have a bunch of strays in the middle of the battlefield." He sighed and continued, this story wasn''t something easy to tell. "I was a hunter, and my family has good archery technique. They made me archer, however, archers didn''t go through lighter training. I could say, archers were training more than others because we needed to shoot 1 thousand arrows every day. I was quite rebelling then, and questioned the sake of training as we were range units. First thing, I was got beaten and the instructor taught us lesson, that I still remember." He made a weird expression, with a weird voice said. "You are archer and what? YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE WILL FUCKIN FIGHT YOU ON DISTANCE? This is fuckin war, they will fuckin come and slaughter you in close quarters because you cannot protect yourself. Remember, the archer should be able to fight close quarters at least enough to fend off attackers before assistance of melee units." "I was beaten, every training as an example of trying to question the instructors. After some time, I started to dodge instinctively the instructor''s attacks. I understood that instructor lesson and everyday trained to finally stop getting beaten. The instructor wasn''t going to stop, so my body learned every move and pain. The month later, he couldn''t hit me in a casual way..." "I was to war, with my comrades. The war wasn''t a place of honor and glory, it was a place of death. Many of my friends fell, from nearby villages only I and Casper survived. You won''t know the reality of war if you don''t experience it yourself. I was tired of this, this was the moment to leave the battlefield. I asked for leave and it was granted. I came to this village to find all of my family members were dead. They died from disease..." Casper was few years younger than him and both of them experienced pain of war. Rose''s father wasn''t in the same group as Roger but they met few times on the battlefield. Roger met his wife and decided to retire from military. He didn''t want to make his wife experience fear of never seeing her loved one once again. They trained for few next days, archery and close quarters. Roger preferred using the knife as a weapon, Aron decided to learn using knives too. [Skill Roger''s Footwork generated.] [Archer profession unlocked and activated.] [Archer] [Boost: +0.1 DEX, +0.1 STR, +0.1 PER] [Level Cap: 15] [Skill Military Archery generated. Military Archery lv.0(0/1K)] [Congratulations first combat-oriented profession unlocked.] ''No reward?'' [Don''t be ridiculous, the system won''t reward you for everything. Stop being lazy and work.] [Name: Aron(Marcus Reave)] [Title: Worthless Bastard, Champion(Hidden)] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/Shiran] [Bloodline: White blood(13%), Drevon(15%)] [Profession: Mason lv.5(13K/50K), Sculptor lv.2(1K/10K), Archer lv.0(0/5K), Bowyer lv.4(12K/50K), Herbalist lv.5(4K/50K)] [Space: Farming lv.4, Ranch lv.1, Workshop lv.1, Storage, Library, Digging Site, Quarry] [Stats: STR 4.3, DEX 5.2, END 5.3, INT 22, PER 20, CHA 2.2, ART 2.5] [Points: WE 3215, SP 10, AP 10, KP 953 ] [Talents: Axe, Poisons, Bow, Mace, Blacksmith] [Traits:] [Negative: ??] [Positive: High-Capacity Brain, Hardworking, Strong Limbs, Ambidextrous, Eagle''s Eyes, Mutated Heart, Flexible, Strengthened Skull, Poison/Venom Immunity(Known snakes), Moderate Poison Resistance¡­ ] [Skills] [General: Plunder, Appraisal lv.8(49K/500K), Let''s Gamble!, Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Handiwork lv.5(Locked)] [Profession: Sculpting lv.2(15K/50K) Smelting lv.0, Weaving lv.0, Smithing lv.0¡­] [Fighting: Military Archery lv.0(0/5K), Roger''s Footwork lv.0(0/5K)] ''Let''s continue training! I will get things done! Fuck all bastards who messed with me!'' Previous life kidnapers and blacksmith deserved revenge. Parents of this body couldn''t be left without punishment either. 36 The Overall Improvements 4 . His ranch became full again, it was time to get animals to improve the ranch with bigger variety. His footwork and archery improved tremendously, so it was impossible for Roger to spar with him anymore. Strength and speed of bull and technique of experienced archer allowed him to overcome lack in experience. ''I need to go hunting to forest. My lack experience in actual battle might drag me into my grave someday.'' Experience was crucial in battles against a beast and humans. Battles in Death Hand didn''t give him much experience as he wasn''t fully himself then. "I need to construct some traps for smaller animals and birds." Speed wasn''t everything in forest if you could get something by using your mind, it was always worth trying. ''My plan slowly working and a village is going into right direction. It''s snail''s speed but I cannot complain.'' Villagers had big problem with hygiene and fertilizing the soil, none of their ancestors did such things and they hesitated about this idea. They forgot about one simple thing, their ancestors died at age of 30. The low lifespan wasn''t only problem, people needed to have multiple children as diseases, infections and many things could take their lives before maturing into adults. Winter was like grim reaper taking lives every year. Getting to forest was easy and his target was catch animals alive. Humankind was enslaving animals from a very beginning of their existence. His choice was to capture boars, and they were good source of meat and leather. Tracking those animals wasn''t hard, there were many burrows and droppings around the forest. In few hours, he found the entire family of boars. ''The same family from last time. The old sow will die from my hands for second time.'' His archery was on another level, so killing boar was matter of time. Piglets were treated with arrows with dull arrowheads, used to stun not to kill. All of them were inputted into prepared cages inside of space. ''I cannot put them into a ranch until I tame them.'' Putting wild animals with domesticated ones wasn''t good idea. They could clash with each or even influence badly already well behaving animals. The ranch separated animals into areas, still he didn''t want to risk animals going crazy. Taming wasn''t complicated process for younger animals, simply feeding and treating animal good was enough. Some animals needed to be bought with their favorite food, but most of them slowly allowed human to get closer to them. ''They will forget that I slaughtered their mother. It''s one of the laws of nature! Strong eats weak and weak cannot complain!'' Animals couldn''t care long for such things, and their main priority was survival at any cost. Sometimes animals ate their own siblings to survive, and his boars will adapt to their new lives as his property. [Beginner Animal Tamer profession unlocked and activated.] [Beginner Animal Tamer lv.0(0/1K)] [Desc: The profession of those who started their road on an animal taming.] [Boost: +0.1 CHA, +0.1 INT] [Ranch level up] [Ranch lv.2] [Controlled Breeding function unlocked.] ''Ohh. So animals didn''t mate because there was no such function?'' It was little unreasonable but system could actually suppress urges and instincts of animals inside the ranch. ''I hope finally some animal evolves. I feed them this bizarre herb and nothing happens.'' Aron started testing effects of fire spark flower. The small chance was in case small Chance, nothing activated hidden potential and there was no trace of any mutations on anything interesting. ''It''s matter of time!'' Scientific breakthroughs always required time and impatience wouldn''t help him in any way. He shifted his attention to other projects, one of them was a paper mill. "Carl, I need few able men to help me construct important building!" Getting help from villagers was good idea as building something outside space took too much time. "I can ask around, still none works for free!" Village chief stated obvious fact, he needed to provide some kind of remuneration for his workers. ''Hmm. Let''s pay them with meat. I am a hunter for god sake!'' Animal products were very important to people who could only allow themselves on holidays. Aron could get meat from forest and ranch, so using it as currency wasn''t problem. There were leathers, linen and crops in amounts that could feed entire country. "Don''t worry about such things. Tell them I will pay with meat and leathers!" Hearing a confident boy, Carl became surprised. Hunters like Roger and Casper couldn''t play like this as getting game wasn''t easy. It wasn''t normal to bring game every hunt, sometimes there were many days without anything. "Kid! Don''t play with food! If you got lucky then start freaking preparing for winter!" It wasn''t reasonable to use precious resources to fulfill his weird whim. "Old man, I know what I am doing so stop screwing around!" His voice carried little anger as chief became annoying with his inaccurate advices. "Don''t say, I didn''t warn you!" Carl left to search for volunteers with trace of worry on his face. ''When I get paper¡­I can start teaching those people basics¡­hmmm'' Paper was important invention to civilization as it was easy to create and cheaper than skin parchment or papyrus. ''Creating soap? I instructed people to clean their hands with water for now. It''s not effective but it''s better than nothing.'' Some villagers like Roger paid some attention to basic hygiene, so they didn''t eat in hands covered in shit. ''It can wait for some time. I lack many ingredients for basic soap recipes. Fuck! I almost lack entire Mendeleev table!'' A modern world allowed him to have access to any element or mineral with power of money. This settlement didn''t care much about minerals and such things as those things were basically useless. His plan was to start using stone for building, still bringing out so much material without suspicion was hard. Refining stone was still important as it could improve his mason profession. Making bows became his hobby, there was three hundred bows inside of storage. Those bows were built for universal use, so they weren''t perfectly fitted for him. Some archers couldn''t allow themselves to build a new bow every now and then. Another important thing was equipment provided by an army was cheap and mass produced. The only result is it broke from time to time, so archers needed to improvise something like taking bows of fallen comrades. [Name: Aron(Marcus Reave)] [Title: Worthless Bastard, Champion(Hidden)] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/Shiran] [Bloodline: White blood(13%), Drevon(15%)] [Profession: Mason lv.7(13K/50K), Sculptor lv.4(11K/50K), Archer lv.2(6K/25K), Bowyer lv.6(72K/250K), Herbalist lv.5(4K/50K),Beginner Animal Tamer lv.0] [Space: Farming lv.4, Ranch lv.2, Workshop lv.1, Storage, Library, Digging Site, Quarry] [Stats: STR 4.9, DEX 5.7, END 5.7, INT 22, PER 20.2, CHA 2.7, ART 3] [Points: WE 9215, SP 10, AP 10, KP 953 ] [Talents: Axe, Poisons, Bow, Mace, Blacksmith] [Traits:] [Negative: ??] [Positive: High-Capacity Brain, Hardworking, Strong Limbs, Ambidextrous, Eagle''s Eyes, Mutated Heart, Flexible, Strengthened Skull, Poison/Venom Immunity(Known snakes), Moderate Poison Resistance¡­ ] [Skills] [General: Plunder, Appraisal lv.9(149K/1M), Let''s Gamble!, Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Handiwork lv.5(Locked)] [Profession: Sculpting lv.3(45K/100K) Smelting lv.1(1K/5K), Weaving lv.0, Smithing lv.0¡­] [Fighting: Military Archery lv.4(12K/100K), Roger''s Footwork lv.3(7K/50K)] 37 You are guilty! The days passed and paper mill was almost ready, however something happened while Aron was hunting. Someone set a fire inside of his construction site and it was completely burned. Villagers extinguished the fire, still entire building needed to be done from the beginning. Aron was mad as his plans were postponed once again, still how to track the culprit without any lead. [Burned wooden wall] [Desc: Wooden wall burned by fire.] ''Ohh fuck!'' This information didn''t help him at all, so he decided to put his current skill points into appraisal. [Appraisal lv.15¡­] ''I had 11 points it got only to 15 level? What''s the matter?'' [Leveling skill after 10 level consumes 2 points. Skill requires more and more skill points every 10 levels. For example leveling skills after 20 level requires 5 points for every level.] ''It''s not cheap¡­'' It was reasonable as grinding skills was more time consuming. [Host should be happy that you can level up skills with points.] ''You are right.'' [Burned wall.] [Desc: Wall burned in fire set up by Bob.] ''Ohh! I will fucking kill the moron!'' Aron rushed to Bob''s place, it was simple. He knew that person was supporter of Ian and wanted to force him to admit that it was Ian''s order. Bang! He kicked Bob''s hut''s door and it slammed on nearby wall. His speed was fast and before man could really understand what''s happening Aron was before him. "What are you doing! Stop! HELP, HE WANTS TO KILL ME!" Bob was terrified by sudden events, he thought none will even suspect him or find out about his deed. "Shut your fucking mouth! SLAP!" Aron didn''t want to listen to his bullshit, so he slapped him couple times and then knocked him out. He dragged him to ruins of his construction and tied him to one of the pillars. It was time to use wrath of masses for punishment. The easiest way was calling all villagers and using their wrath to punish the stupid man without doing anything. "Carl! I found a culprit of today''s fire." His voice carried anger and resentment; this project was important to future developments of his plans. "Ehh? Who did such awful things?" Carl was surprised by his sudden exclamation, someone went overboard and set a fire. It was crime that could burn an entire village, it couldn''t be forgiven easily. "It''s Bob, and he was acting suspiciously recently. I saw him couple times watching the construction site. After today''s events I decided to observe his actions and I was freaking right. This monster went to Ian and bragged about this deed!" Aron created another fake story to cover his version of events and find an excuse for capturing the criminal. "What do you want to do with him? He has many friends, so you cannot act rashly!" It was obvious that people would support their friend instead of an outsider like Aron. "I will give him public trial and execution today! Call all people and let me deal with this!" Carl became terrified but Aron''s decision was right. Bob was ready to destroy to someone''s life, so he needed to take consequences. A few hours later all villagers were gathered and many started complaining. "I gathered you all to give a trial to a monster!" His voice resounded in entire village, those words were harsh for small time criminal like Bob. "Today at my building was burned by this person! SETTING A FIRE AND CAUSING DANGER FOR ENTIRE VILLAGE! IMAGINE IF PEOPLE DIDN''T REACT ENTIRE VILLAGE WOULD BURN! This monster aimed at our lives and wellbeing! His evil deeds caused him to be so full of himself, that he started bragging to his friends about this monstrosity! WE NEED TO ELIMINATE THE BEAST BEFORE IT''S TOO LATE!" His manipulation caused an entire crowd to become enraged, and they wanted to tear Bob into pieces. "Do you have anything to add before your punishment?" Controlling emotions of a crowd and setting up the scene. Bob became scared of all angry people staring at him. "I dddidn''t meaaan too! It was Ian''s idea! HE Ordered me!" He panicked and admitted his mistakes, and his death was set in stone. ''According to plan. I had fake story as my evidence, but right now his fate is sealed!'' The entire performance aimed was created to make him admit his mistakes and destroy reputation of Ian. "LIES! I didn''t say anything to him! It''s witchcraft, and he is manipulating Bob! HELP ME TAKE HIM DOWN!" Ian tried to convince reverse situation, but people wouldn''t just switch their wrath because of simple words. "You heard him! He is the accomplices of a monster! Ian wants to silence me because he is guilty! GET HIM TO THE TRIAL!" People didn''t trust Aron much, yet his charisma allowed him to manipulate their emotions and minds. "It''s his fault! I am only simple man! Let me go!" Bob was shouting with tears inside of his eyes. None cared about his fate, he was just the chess piece in game between Aron and Ian. "SHUT UP! I didn''t order you to do anything!" Ian became angry at Bob. It was simple task, set a fire and not let anyone found out. "You are lying! You hate this kid to the bones! It''s all your fault and you set me up!" Bob didn''t want to die, so he was trying everything he could. "SILENCE! Bob is guilty of attempted murder of the entire villages! His punishment will be trial of fire!" It was simple trial, and criminal was given to fire for a judgement. They believed that gods won''t hurt a innocent people, so fire would burn only criminals. Ian was too respected to set him up in such manner. People started doubting Ian''s good will but they wouldn''t believe he wanted to kill them. "Do you have anything to add? IAN?" It was another trap, defending Bob would cause his reputation go downhill. Second option was even more problematic, it was betraying his supporter and consequences were simple. Many of his supporters will leave him, and his influence will be minimal in the villages. "I admit one thing. I complained about you, still I didn''t know that this monster will do such thing! His actions were aiming at our lives! I simply regret not preventing him on stepping on such road without return." Ian could only save his image, and Bob''s fate was sealed and there was no possible way to save him. "START TRIAL OF FIRE!" Man screamed in pain while he was burning. Air was filled with smell of burned flesh. ''They are stupid and blood thirstily! They are simple and easy to manipulate! Only few were disappointed by this situation.'' Most of the simple people liked to watch someone''s misery and pain. It was proved by creating colosseums in ancient Rome. ''First your supporters! Then your family! Finally, I will come for you!'' His plan was to deal in other way with his enemies, yet they knocked into his door with evil intentions. It was simple provocation and it required action. Ian sat inside of his forge and gritted his teeth. His supporters started to fear about their lives. His hatred to Aron was so intense that if it could materialize it would swallow entire village. "You will fucking regret this, stupid kid!" His anger couldn''t be stopped by simple words. He started madly pounding at his anvil with his hammer, venting out all of his wrath. 38 The Game 1 . Execution was topic of entire village for many days, Aron felt that Ian will scheme something to get revenge. ''Haha! Come at me! I am stronger and faster than any of your dogs.'' The intellectual warfare was won by Aron and only option left for a desperate blacksmith was using strength to suppress the boy. The problem was that his strength could easily kill any of those brats without any effort. White-haired boy decided to visit Rose as she helped this body many times. His appraisal was improved, so he could find the source of her bizarre power from abomination''s memories. [Rose] [Race: Human/Elemental Hybrid] [Bloodline:High Fire Elemental(60%)] [Trait: Split Personality, Fire Control(??), Crazy(??), Kind¡­] "Good morning, Rose! How have you been?" Aron decided to talk with her for a moment. "Hello. I am fine. I heard about Bob¡­ I talked with him couple times and I wouldn''t suspect that he wanted to kill us all¡­" The sorrow and disbelief could be heard from her voice. ''Rose is mild and weak village girl. I might be little too harsh. Village is small and everyone knows each other.'' She could be Bob''s friend and he killed him without any mercy. The decision wouldn''t change if he knew this fact. At worst case scenario, he will kill her or find a way to imprison or control her. "Imagine situation where he set a fire and many people died. His death was good thing for safety and stability of a village¡­It was impossible to monitor him entire day and night to prevent any stupid move from him." Aron created image of a sick psycho trying searching a way to destroy lives of other people. "Maybe, you are right. I still cannot believe he is dead." Their conversation continued for some time and Aron left. Walking toward Carl''s house, he met Joe and his group accompanied by some adults from other village. ''So he decided to strike in a middle of day. Desperate move¡­'' Attacking him at day would arouse suspicion in minds of villagers. ''Whatever¡­Truth can be manipulated¡­'' It was time to finish this matter for good. "Hello, guys? What''s up?" His body was ready for battle, so last thing was their initiation. Creating image of being attacked by a group of people and beating them in self-defense. "Come with us! We have something to show you!" They signaled Aron to walk out of a village. "Interesting! Let''s go!" Fighting in the village allowed him to have advantage of reputation boost, still showing his true strength to all those small-minded people wasn''t good idea. They went pretty far from a village, boy walked with a smile on his face. They thought that he was na?ve and stupid but in fact they were. "Do you want to go Blood city or you will attack now? I am bored¡­" It was already too big distance from a village, continuing any further wouldn''t give any advantage to anyone. "FUCKING TRASH! DIE!" All of them chaotically attacked him, and boy calmly watched their coming at him with smirk on his face. Bang! First of them tried to hit Aron with his fist, still boy simply sidestepped and pounded his head to knock him off. "One down. Many to go!" All enemies were shocked by this situation, still they rushed at him with everything they got. Bang! Punch! Kick! Slowly, number of wounded enemies increased and it was time to end this comedy. White-haired kid approached Joe as he was only one left and said. "What should I do with you all? Kill? Torture?" None would believe that person you bullied entire life would ever strike back at you. This situation is too extreme, their roles reversed and his life was in danger. "FUCK! YOU CANNOT TOUCH ME! I AM FUTURE VILLAGE CHIEF OF COPPERHEAD VILLAGE!" His voice was shaking from fear and it was comical way to threaten the opponent that knocked out dozen of people. ''Should I test this ability? Let''s gamble? Beating or killing him will give me nothing! Let''s use him as experimentental subject!'' This ability wasn''t used even once and all other abilities have various uses to him. It was time to test this power on this idiot. ''Let''s gamble!'' His surroundings immediately changed, it wasn''t plains outside of the village. They appeared in a weird modern hall. "WELCOME!" The weird voice sounded inside his ears.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. "WELCOME THE GAMING WORLD! TWO PLAYERS ARRIVED! INITIATE YOUR STAKES!" The Joe was standing confused on another side of the room. He obviously wanted to say something, yet voice said. "The communication between players is disabled during the selection of stakes!" The touch screen appeared, and he could choose things from Joe. [Lifespan] [Skills/Traits/Talents] [Freedom] ''That''s great! I want his fucking freedom.'' Getting Joe''s freedom would allow him to control Ian and it would resolve conflict between them for good. He clicked the freedom and explanation appeared. [If you win the duel. The opponent''s freedom will belong to you, and it will be impossible to do anything against your will for him.] ''I wonder what kind of technology, they use to ensure this effect.'' [You will know it in future.] "STAKES HAVE BEEN CHOSEN! LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! IT''S SHOWTIME!" They transported to stage with a giant Wheel of fortune. "THE INITIATOR OF THE DUEL IS ARON. THE CREATURE WITH WHITE HAIR. HIS OPPONENT WILL BE JOE, THE CREATURE WITH BRONZE HAIR. THE WINNER TAKES FREEDOM OF THE LOSER. CHALLENGER HAS RIGHT TO SPIN THE FIRST DISCIPLINE!" There were screens with their faces and description in weird language. Something signaled him, to come and spin the wheel. There were 16 categories, 4 with a mark of a skull and 12 with different marks. The marks had weird symbols on them. Aron didn''t understand any of them, and this will be hard. He spun the wheel, and the wheel was spinning, and he only hoped for the good category. The wheel stopped, it was a freaking skull. ''FUCK! FIRST SPIN AND I NEED TO BE SO FUCKIN UNLUCKY!'' "THE CATEGORY IS CHOSEN! IT''S DISCIPLINE FOR DEATH CATEGORY! HAHAHA! TODAYS CATEGORY IS GUTSHIPS~!" There were tribunes and people started to scream in excitement. ''It doesn''t sound pretty good.'' "THE GUTSHIPS IS TACTICAL GAME! EVERY PLAYER HAS 4 SHIPS AND THESE SHIPS ARE WANDERING ON THE MAP. EVERY SHIP IS CONNECTED TO PLAYER''S VITAL ORGAN! PLAYER HAS TO DESTROY ENEMY SHIPS BEFORE HE DESTROYS HIS! DID I SAY ABOUT VITAL ORGANS CONNECTED TO THE SHIPS? IF SHIP IS DESTROYED YOUR VITAL ORGAN WILL BE DESTROYED TOO. ANOTHER WINNING CHANCE IS TO SURVIVE MORE ROUNDS THAN OPPONENT! DON''T WORRY THE YOUR PAIN LEVELS WILL BE ADJUSTED SO YOU DON''T PASS OUT FROM PAIN!'' They floated to the air, they saw the board with ships moving around. They didn''t stay on side of the map, if the player was unlucky he could shoot down his own ship. They were put into floating rooms without sight on the board. There was a touch screen with coordinates, where you wanted to shoot. "THE FIRST TURN! STARTING PLAYER JOE!" The screen showed Joe with a confused look, trying to figure out what''s happening. It was witchcraft to him, and he touched a random spot on the touchscreen. BOOM! The explosion resounded through the entire area. "FIRST SHOT! NO HIT! WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!" Entire crowd started booing at him and this was another effect of failure to entertain them. Every round ended after player shot three shots. Joe was in confusion, and those things weren''t real. It was nightmare and he only needed to wake up. BOOM! BOOM! "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FREAKING STRUCK IT! TOO BAD IT''S YOUR OWN SHIP! HAHAHA! " Joe collapsed in pain, he coughed some blood and looked at the screen with horror. "JOE DAMAGED HIS OWN KIDNEY! IT WAS GREAT EXPLOSION! ONE MORE AND HIS SHIP WILL SINK! I WOULD BE BLOODY PISSED ON MYSELF IF I DID WHAT HE DID!" The commentator tried to play with words and some people on tribunes started to laugh. Joe felt pain and humiliation, and it was first time in his life when he was so helpless. In Aron''s room, a screen with Joe spitting blood appeared, next to it was notification. [Player JOE damaged his kidney''s ship! You are leading in this game!] ''It was real, this skill is freaking dangerous. It''s better to kill someone and freaking plunder their bodies than play this game of death.'' The trace of regret appeared on Aron''s face and [Host is just unlucky! You started from the worst category!] This moment was important, he needed to choose his targets. He remembered the last image of the board. These ships were moving around, it looked random at that moment. ''I need to find the pattern.'' He was imagining the movement of these ships again and again. The timer appeared next to his board. He had 30 seconds left to choose targets, or it will fire at random! ''FUCK! I DON''T HAVE ENOUGH TIME!'' He decided to choose 3 corners, and there shouldn''t be any ship. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "OMG! THIS PLAYER IS INSANE! THREE SHOTS AND TWO STRIKES!" Aron felt extreme pain, and it was his liver. He started to spit his own blood and screen with terrified Joe appeared. He was losing his breath as his lungs were filled with blood. "IT WAS BREATHTAKING SHOT! HAHA! DON''T WORRY GAME WON''T END SO FAST! ACTIVATING BREATHING ASSISTANCE FOR PLAYER JOE!" [You sank opponent lungs'' ship. Congratulations!] ''Bleeding liver, I have less than an hour. The liver is crucial as other organs will start failing one after another.'' The time is limited, he wouldn''t survive long with bleeding organ. Next round will end entire game, his brain started to work on other level. Predicting movement of every ship from the beginnings of the game to this round with confirming right course from results of first two rounds. ''Liver, Kidneys, Lungs, Heart. They wouldn''t use the brain as it would end the game immediately. I need to strike his heart''s ship.'' "THE SECOND ROUND START!" Joe was getting weaker and paler, extreme blood loss. His time was limited to a few minutes, and he will lose consciousness. "TIME LIMIT IS 10 SECONDS!" Joe didn''t understand this game, and he didn''t want to be hurt again. So he didn''t use the touchscreen. "TIME IS UP! SHOOTING AT RANDOM!" BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "HAHAHA! TRIPLE KILL!" Aron''s lungs were destroyed and tried to do something. "ACTIVATING! BREATHING ASSISTANCE FOR PLAYER ARON!" ''SHIT! I won''t survive the next round in this manner!'' There were many possible positions of Joe''s heart ship as ships moved extremely randomly. There was no algorithms behind their movement. "ARON''S TURN!" ''Let''s bet on my luck! Those three positions have highest probability!'' There wasn''t any algorithm behind their movement, still it wasn''t full random either. It was something close to pseudo-random movement and he needed to find right distribution to calculate the probability. His brain found few possible solutions. One of those was chosen and used to calculate probability. He created 3 places of Joe ship''s and decided to shot into three possible positions of the smallest ship. ''If it isn''t his heart ship. I will die and lose this!'' BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! These three explosions felt like minutes, the stress and lack of blood made him extremely tired. The excitement of the crowd reached a climax. If they heard these shouts, their eardrums would explode. Aron was laying on the floor and slowly losing the consciousness, suddenly he felt pain in his kidney. ''FUU'' He closed his eyes and felt disappointed, and these positions were wrong or small ship wasn''t heart. "WEEEEEE HAVE A WINNER!" The screen of Joe exploding into bloody mist appeared although Aron didn''t see it. ''I am alive, did I win?'' He opened eyes and saw a screen with a replay of Joe body exploding with pop sound. 39 The Game 2 . Multiple organ failures dried him from any energy, and he passed out. He appeared in the same stage before the same wheel of fortune. His body was perfectly fine, no blood or any traces of near death experience. ''What the heck? I won the round. I don''t feel any damage in my organs.''It was at least weird, instantly becoming healthy something was off about this game. [Your body was dying, still it''s not your real body. Players consciousness is moved into new body every round.] ''It''s something like virtual reality. Interesting, so I won''t die after losing a round.''This thing was important to his decisions in next rounds. [The death in every round doesn''t matter. The most important is winning the rounds. If you lose entire game and your bet was life then it will be taken from you.] ''Good to know.'' The opportunity to lose your life in virtual game wasn''t good thing. Joe was in a miserable state, the experience of death and all of this crazy thinsg was too much for his mentality. None ever beat him in real life before, so his body was not ready for any kind of pain. Aron had stronger body and experience of his previous life. "THE PLAYERS ARE READY FOR THE SECOND DISCIPLINE! CONTESTANT JOE WILL SPIN THE WHEEL! LET''S HOPE THAT HIS LUCK IS SIMILAR TO WINNER OF PREVIOUS DISCIPLINE! HAHA!" The more gore discipline is the more profit will it bring to the gaming world. Life and death matters were only entertainment for people on tribunes. Joe was walking in a shaky manner. He touched the wheel and spun it. The spinning wheel was slowing down. Aron hoped it wasn''t the skull again, these categories are little too deadly. "WE HAVE CATEGORY!" The crowd was disappointed when they saw a weird icon of the scroll. "IT''S SCENARIO, BORING !!! BUT THAT''S THE CATEGORY! People were booing him and showing their disappointment. "ALL OFFENDERS WILL PLAY THE GAME THEMSELVES!" Entire tribune became deadly silent, these games were freaking dangerous. Aron won due to prediction algorithms and luck. The all other people could only rely on their luck. "GOOD! LET''S EXPLAIN THE RULES!" "PLAYERS WILL BE SEND INTO SCENARIO WORLD WITH A MISSION. THE WINNER WILL BE DECIDED AFTER JUDGING THE PERFORMANCE!" It was a simple explanation, and the category was simple. They will get their mission. "THE PLAYER ARON IS PHYSICALLY BETTER THAN PLAYER JOE! TO ENSURE ENTERTAINMENT HIS BODY WILL BE BOOSTED FOR TIME OF MISSION!" ''Interesting concept! [The quest was generated. The system cannot display it, as most of its functions are disabled in this world.] ''So you won''t punish me for not knowing the goal and not intentionally failing the quest?'' [No. Don''t worry, the system is not unreasonable!]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. ''Not reasonable my ass!'' He appeared inside of some kind of apartment. On his wrist was a futuristic device, similar to the smartwatch in the form of a tattoo. The screen displayed three categories to choose from. ''Little more advanced than Earth. I can handle it, probably.'' The first was the journal, there was information about mission, target, and opponents. ''His idea wandered to actually appraise the watch'' [???] ''It''s working, the level is too low. '' [Mission Goal: Rescue Devon Smith from kidnappers.] [Desc: Devon was kidnaped by the local mafia, your goal is to rescue him and escort him to the safe place.] [Opponents: Skinners] [Desc: Underground mafia related to drug deals, terrorism, kidnapping, and multiple homicides. Their group consists of 5 ranks of hierarchy, the lowest are local thugs and drug dealers. The second level consists of prison escapees and little more skilled individuals. The third levels are skinners and brutes. These are the results of multiple failed drug tests and other experiments. Their bodies are stronger, it''s impossible to kill them with simple firearms. The fourth level is made by five individuals, information about them is not available. There is no information about 5th level] ''It''s going to be tough. Let''s check another thing like missions or shop.'' [Contacts] He had only two contacts there, distraction and client. [Missions] [Kill the local drug lord! - 50000$] [...] [Rescue Rirak of Sanis Clan. - 100$] The missions related to this particular skinner''s base were limited, to two additional mission. The game was about getting points, and doing more mission should make him way ahead of Joe. His equipment was made from lightweight Kevlar vest, three combat knives and rifle with a silencer. Using rifle was out of option, it''s too big to hide and too expensive for an ordinary thug. ''I have some remaining money. Let''s search things about combat and things that could help increase my strength in real world!'' This world might be virtual and things couldn''t be brought out of this, still learning skills will bring him skills in system. Anything that he read would be instantly imprinted inside of his mind due his perfect memory. There was bizarre technique on market called Gluttonous Demon physique, like name suggest it allowed user to gain physique of gluttonous demon. Those beast were strong and durable, the only problem was consumption of great amounts of calories. Aron decided to get this manual for a big chunk of his budget and rest was spending on few another weird books. Power Fist was technique used to exert 200% of strength, Meridians and Acupoints was elementary book for acupuncture. His money was fully used, so it was time to proceed with mission. He called the distraction team to prepare to strike after receiving the signal. The plan was simple, sneak inside, finish objectives and run away. It sounded like the stroll in the park, and their lair was highly protected by at least 5 3rd level subordinates, talking about lower leveled mobs was futile. There was no information on actual numbers. The distraction team was hidden nearby while the boy used the hole in the fence to sneak inside. The first target was stupid thug taking piss in nearby bushes. White-haired sneaked at him and thrusted one of his daggers into his throat. It was instant dead, During his containment in Death''s hand, he learned that every creature has its weak spots. The humankind is full of these spots, starting from throat, eyes, heart, liver and many more ending on the cutting off man''s jewels. The throat was the best target for silent killers as the target won''t scream because of blood in their throat. Another thing was knowledge about human biology from a previous life. Although, humans in this world or Destia''s humans weren''t the same as Earth humans, yet the weaknesses remained the same. [Jack] [Profession: Fraud, Robber, Rapist...] The heart and eyes were good too, but there was the protection of bones and if you missed the spot. The target will survive long enough to call for help. The mission would fail at this moment, so Aron didn''t want to risk too much. Changing into clothes of a victim was one of the arts of disguise, and the problem was his appearance and physique differed from Jack. There was no other choice, and he decided to try to infiltrate like this. ''Maybe, they don''t care.'' There was chance that all of them were morons and none cared about appearance of the Jack. There were two guards at this entrance and few more people wandering around. The person killed by Aron was going to take a piss in nearby bushes. The initial goal was complete, the hardest part was ahead of him. ''I hope, that they follow the customs and have proper dungeons underground.'' The boy was walking, people didn''t care much. The first problem was the weird looking guy, that approached him in the first moment, he saw him. [Beast] [Profession: Murderer, Blackmailer...] ''Fuck! The second level, one of the sick psychos. Is my luck so freaking bad?'' "Jack, you owe me 50 bucks. PAYBACK OR I WILL FUCKIN KILL YOU!" Aron became pale, he didn''t have any money on him, only knives and Jack''s pistol. The luck was on his side, and Jack had a wallet inside one of the pockets in his jeans. There was more than 500$ inside. ''Crazy motherfucker! Messing with some psycho as small fry! I disguised as retard...'' Aron handed one 50 dollars banknote to person and entered mansion with anger on his face. "HAHA! Good!" Thug didn''t care much about things and his attention focused on money inside of his hands. ''So those people are really morons¡­'' After passing through, he spotted Drug lord from the mission. [Richard] [Profession: Drug lord, Boxer...] ''He is quite a tough one. I need to use smart approach.'' Guy went to the bathroom and Aron followed him. After being sure, that there is none inside. He took out the knife. Richard was sitting on the throne while doing number two, without worry. Aron entered cabin next to him, and he decided to use the gap between the ceiling and wall to enter Richard''s cabin. "What the fuck?!?" Richard was surprised and tried to do something but Aron was already slicing his neck with the knife. His clothes got new bloodstains on it, and it wasn''t a good thing. ''It was fuckin messy. Be always cautious the killer might get you everywhere!'' Assasins didn''t seek glory in their kills, and they had contracts and methods weren''t important much for them. Sometimes gaining reputation would make their jobs harder. The assassination in such occasion was extremely popular in the middle ages. Who would expect that someone attacks you in this moment of privacy? ''I need to act fast, and someone will notice dead Richard and they will freaking raise alarm.'' Finding dead body inside bathroom or Jack''s body in the bushes would immediately make his job hard to complete. His another mission was to get cocaine for someone, and there were many bags inside of Richard''s room. Aron took 2 kg and put it into his small bag. Carrying additional weight around wasn''t smart, still he could toss it away in any moment. The place of where prisoners were held, was small basement few meters away from the mansion''s second entrance. The door opened, there were 4 cells and one skinner playing with a half-dead person. The person had grey skin color and his veins were weirdly green. ''Human experimentation. Failed one¡­'' Aron observed weird human-like creature and said. "SSSS! What are you doing here? Do you want to have some fun?" Skinner got excited as there was little border between allies and enemies in his mind. Sometimes, they used low level thugs to appease those beasts. "I came to deliver the cocaine from Richard." Cocaine from higher ranking boss would be great excuse as took some bags from "CCCocaiiine? I diiidn''t orddder any... " Creature became angry and looked weirdly at disguised Aron. "I am only doing my job. Take the thing and let me leave." He handed him cocaine and observed the opponent body. His neck was covered in multiple cuts, yet it looked like they were made recently. [Necker] [Profession: Torturer,...] ''I will strike to the eyes when taking the package.'' Necker took the package and Aron immediately struck. The knife pierced his eye, yet he moved and it didn''t enter deep enough. "SSS. I knew you are not a dog of Richard. Your smell is different. Come and play with me!" The torturer picked the machete and rushed to him. He picked his two remaining knives and started to fight the skinner. Their fight needed to end fast, Roger''s footwork was his savior. Kid dodged the machete by a centimeter and pierced the second eye. "ARRRGHH! I DON''T SEE! I WILL FUCKIN EAT YOU ALIVE !" Those threats were useless, boy finished him by pushing knives further into brain. ''It''s dead. FUCKIN DEAD!'' He called the distraction and appraised the last victim on the table. [Nash] It wasn''t any of his targets, he took keys and opened the doors. Devon was a fat middle-aged man with many scars over the body. Aron threw him on his shoulder and opened the rest of the cells. "I wouldn''t recommend that. There is another skinner around. " It was old hoarse voice, and the man in the cell had a lot more scars from Devon. [Rirak] "If you cannot walk. I won''t save you." Aron said and started to leave. "Who said I won''t able to walk. You will fail this mission and die if we leave directly." Aron looked at him and was confused. "Besides the skinners, there is a stronger guy around. He is on the second floor. Before we run away, he will slaughter us." Rirak explained with a grim expression. "I don''t care. If I have to die, I will die fighting. Not like a rat in a cage!" The boy said and started a fire. It wasn''t his business, he gave the chance to these people to escape. It was mostly to make them distract his opponents but still chance was better than dying like a lab rats. One of victims took something sharp and committed suicide. "The only way out is through boss''s mansion. We can try to escape¡­" Rirak wasn''t optimistic about entire escaping, yet his life sealed. "Whatever. Let''s go!" Most of the people were gun fighting outside so they didn''t spot them leaving the dungeons. They entered the second floor and they were immediately met by a person with curve bow. "Two rats sneaked into the mansion. I need to punish these trashes under me!" Disgust and irritation were only emotions on person''s face. Aron threw Devon on the ground and took out his daggers. Rirak could use only Skinner''s machete as weapon. There was no point in complaining, it was sharp and durable. Swish! Man shot an arrow straight into Rirak, but man deflected it without effort. "This is too slow. Stop wasting your time!" Mocking archer was only way to force him into making mistake. Aron tried to use knives as throwing weapon, but his ammo was limited and person wasn''t slow either. Rirak started closing distance with constant deflecting of arrows, it was unbelievable that normal person could move so fast. The archer became crazy and accelerated his shooting while laughing like a maniac. "DIE! DIE! DIE! HAHAHA!" Person took out a whip and attacked Aron, and this was obvious mistake as Aron caught it. His arm got dislocated, still he held it with all strength inside of his body. "YOU LITTLE¡­" Man started screaming in rage, but it was useless. "I will hold this for few seconds. GET THIS CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER!" Aron shouted why struggling to hold still the whip. "FUCK YOU BOTH!" He activated some weird aura, and Aron couldn''t withstand his power anymore. The Rirak was already close and whip couldn''t be back in time. It was like time stopped for him, his speed soared for few seconds. "Secret arts of Sanis, The Heart Piercer!" He appeared behind the person with the heart in his hand. ''Cliche as fuck! People like him exist...'' Aron couldn''t stop himself from smiling, it was similar to few fictional characters from Earth. The man collapsed on his knees with disbelief. Two rats killed him, that was something impossible. Aron set his dislocated arm back and picked up Devon from corner. "No time to talk! Beautifully done! THERE WILL BE CAR WAITING FOR US 100 METERS FROM HERE! RUN!" Every second was precious as gold right now. All thugs were vigilant and running around, still none was allowed in boss room. It was perfect escape route for them. ''This bow is interesting. Let''s take it with me.'' It always could be used as there was quiver on corpse''s back. Entire mansion was in chaos, the fire and raiders make all of them busy. None would suspect that one of their bosses was lying dead and enemies were escaping through his quarters. They escaped with van prepared by Devon''s people and mission was finished. "Kid, you are quite capable for your age! I am indebted to you!" He said with sincerity, yet something was holding him back. "I cannot give you my life yet, as I have a daughter to protect and she is a most important thing in the world." It was a stain on his honor, and he couldn''t stand. There are priorities and honor was less important than his family. "Don''t worry old man. I got paid for helping you." Aron didn''t care much as this man was skilled figher. It would be good to have someone like him as subordinate. Rirak wanted to ask something, due to his surprise boy wasn''t there anymore. It was like he disappeared in thin air. 40 The Game 3 . Aron and Joe appeared on stage and the same announcer started to talk about the results. "THE RESULTS ARE OUT!" "LET''S START FROM PLAYER JOE! TOTAL OF 200 POINTS. 100 POINTS FOR SURVIVING AND 100 POINTS FOR ENTERTAINING THE JUDGES WITH COMEDY!" "YOUR IDIOCY AND ABILITY TO SCREW THE SIMPLEST THINGS WERE FUNNY TO WATCH!" "NEXT IS PLAYER ARON. YOU GOT TOTAL 500 OF POINTS! 100 POINTS FOR SURVIVING, 100 POINTS FOR FINISHING THE MISSION, 100 POINTS FOR ENTERTAINMENT, 200 OF POINTS FOR FINISHING THE SIDE MISSIONS. I HAVE TO ASK! DO YOU HAVE THE WEIRD FETISH OF KILLING PEOPLE IN MIDDLE OF..." "OK, LET"S ANNOUNCE THE WINNER!" All of them knew the result and announcer only postponed it for a few seconds. "THE WINNER IS ARON! HAHAHA! YOU ENTERTAINED US VERY WELL! IT''S SAD WE WON''T SEE ANOTHER DISCIPLINE! THIS IS ALL FOR TODAY''S SHOW! COME ANOTHER TIME! FOR MOST THRILLING GAME OF ENTIRE UNIVERSE!" The people started screaming, the players were transported into another room. "PLEASE INPUT YOUR LOGO FOR FUTURE BRANDS AND SLAVE BRAND!" ''What logo?'' His previous company had a logo of the letter ''M'' inside the snake''s eye. ''Let''s change previous to fit my current name. Snake''s eye can be interpreted as a dragon eye too. He changed the eye to make it more dragon-like and saved the logo.'' "Your logo was saved! Future brand related to Aron from Destia will be branded with this symbol." In the middle of the room was Joe and his chest was open. The laser was imprinting slave mark on his heart. After finishing the mark, his chest got healed and a voice asked him. "Do you wish to wipe memories from this day, from the slave mind?" ''They are quite capable. The things that happened today would affect this trash mind too much.'' Leaving memories would made Joe a cripple or mental trauma would be too big to use him in any way.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. "Yes, do it!" Aron agreed without futher consideration. "Done." The emotionless voice said and he returned his world. At the same plains, time was stopped for the entire time. [Congratulation, Host! You got your first slave!] [Do you wish to display all the notifications from time inside of the Game world?] ''Yes.'' He was quite concerned about not passing some quests during that time and making his stats miserable thanks to that. [Skill Accelerated Thinking generated. Accelerated Thinking lv.0(553/5000)] [Skill Prediction generated. Prediction lv.0(52/2500)] [Skill Gambling generated. Gambling lv.0(64/1000)] [Profession Gambler unlocked and activated!] [Gambler lv.0(12/10K)] [Boost: +0.01 LUK, 0.1 PER] [Level Cap: 15] [Luck stat unlocked.] [Luck] [Desc: Stat that influenced the user''s favor of fate. Cannot be increased by stat points!] [Aratan Language lv.MAX generated.] [Quest Generated] [Name: Rescue Mission!] [Goals: Rescue Devon! (A), Kill any member of Skinners! (B), Rescue Rirak! (C)] [Rewards: A(1 Skill Point and 1 Stat Point), B(Every lv.1(20 WE), Every lv.2(50WE), Every lv.3(250WE), lv.4 (Serenity ¡ª Bow or 5000 WE)), C(Sanis Clan will be transported to your world! Or Sanis Bloodline and arts)] [Skill Assassination generated. Assassination lv.0(444/1000)] [Skill Disguise generated. Disguise lv.0(33/1000)] [Skill Sneak Attack generated. Sneak Attack lv.0(632/2.5K)] [Quest Completed] [Choose your rewards.] ''Bow and Sanis Clan!'' Getting Rirak was great thing, this man was skilled and reliable. What was more important, he was no afraid of darting his hands with blood. [Rewards: Serenity, Skill, and Stat points, 2345 WE, Sanis Clan will be transported to this world.] This bow was something very interesting for him, and it withstood strength of this man without problem. Such weapon will serve him for some time, until it''s limits will be reached by non-stop increasing strength of Aron. [Serenity] [Desc: Bow made from mutated beast''s body parts. The arrows from this bow might grant peace for the target. It can be used with aura.] Moment later, Rirak and his daughter appeared before Aron. They were wearing their clan''s attire which was similar to martial apprentice robes of some dojos. His daughter was small and cute with blond hair and clear blue eyes. In few years she will be beautiful woman, that''s what Aron believed. "Hello, we see each other again Aron." The voice contained a trace of sadness. "Hi, I think we saw each other a few days ago?" A white-haired boy was surprised by Rirak''s reaction. [Host is wrong. The system brought him from his original world. Actually, the world you played in exists somewhere in the universe. From their point of view, 2 years already passed and many things happened.] "I was thinking about my debt for two years. I learned that you took this mission for 100 dollars and got shocked. Is my life worth fucking 100 $ in your eyes? I decided to raise Selise, and depart to search for you. My entire clan is dead. Only two of us left¡­ I don''t want to my little girl face off our enemies¡­" His story described their last few years, his part in clan''s war and many more. "One day, I heard that voice! If you want to save your daughter¡­Accept this offer! This was hard decision but I love my daughter beyond everything! I decided to accept it and here we are!" It was odd situation for him as there wasn''t such technology in his world. It was something like ancient cultivators controlling time and space without effort. "I will follow you. As for my daughter, she is only 7. I wish if she could grow up without constant worry¡­" Rirak was concerned about fate of his little daughter. "Don''t worry! Let''s start from basics¡­This world is called Destia¡­" Aron started explaining all things important about world. From technological level to races and danger in surroundings. "Beast, martial artists, and other races! Could you please stop calling me old man? I have only 32 old..." Being refugee was quite stressful and even person who was forged by clan of killers didn''t take this stress to well. "You look much older. I will call you Rirak from now on!" Boy answered with straightforward manner, and it was obvious that he will be boss of this man. "Ohh, where are my manners. This is Selise, my daughter." Rirak decided to introduce his daughter which was hiding behind him for few minutes. She was confused by current situation and previous events. "Hi, I am Aron." Aron''s body was of a child but his voice was little more mature. "Hello, older brother. My father said it was you that saved him. Thank you very much!" She was really cute, little girl. Aron shook his head, and he felt like an old man. There was currently only 4 years difference between his body and this little girl. Another thing was mental age, which could be estimated as 50 plus as life of previous Aron didn''t count. [Servant system unlocked.] [Rirak wish to become your servant! Will you accept him?] "If this is your will, I WILL ACCEPT THIS!" His voice was confident and charismatic. This man decided to put his life in Aron''s hands, there couldn''t be other answer. [You formed a contract with Rirak Sinas.] [You can have infinite number of servants. Slaves are limited to your soul strength. Current limit : 2] [You soul is too weak for more contracts. The soul strengthening method would allow you to overcome this limitation.] Joe woke up and greeted Aron while kneeling. His eyes looked with sense of inferiority, it was like dog looking at his owner. "Welcome, this slave awaiting the orders!" His change was great, he was no longer arrogant idiot from before. Joe became Aron''s slave, and his mindset changed into master''s slave. The underlings of Joe were still sleeping, their leader was already his slave. Their turn will come later. They untied their binding and ordered Joe to take care of their tongues and come back later to Aron. "I need to ask Roger for permission. I will give them my room, and we will rebuild my hut." ''I wanted to build it from scratch with better materials...'' [Rirak] [Race: Human] [Title: The Butcher.] [Age: 32] [Bloodline: Human(Sinas Clan 60% ¡ª 2nd Awakening)] [Profession: Assassin, Clan''s Leader, Aura User] [Traits: Sinas Clan''s Physique, Agile, Sharp Senses, ...] [Talents: Martial Arts(Medium ¡ª Mortal), Dagger...] [Skills: Assassination, Sinas Clan''s Arts(10%), Sinas Dagger Technique, ...] [Selise] [Tittle: Cute Devil.] [Age:7] [Race: Human] [Bloodline: Human(Sinas Clan 50% ¡ª Not awakened.) [Traits: Cute, Puppy''s Eyes...] [Talents: Dagger, Singing, Drawing...] 41 Ian and Joe. Aron couldn''t let little girl live in a bad environment. His hut wasn''t renovated and he could only ask Roger about sharing his room with Sinas. Rirak and Selise were surprised by the technological level of this world, no electricity or even basic sever system was pretty bad. "It''s awful¡­ Hygiene in this world is trash¡­ I am afraid of the future of my daughter! I am not a doctor¡­ In case of stupid infection¡­I cannot do shit! Look at this place¡­ People living like pigs¡­They are freaking throwing their feces through the windows¡­" Rirak could protect his daughter from enemies, monsters and many other things. Things like viruses and bacteria couldn''t be killed with weapons. "I understand¡­ The problem is that the entire village must be rebuilt to create a sever system¡­ I don''t own this place yet¡­" Making things too hastily wasn''t smart, every step needed to be performed carefully. First, dominate the minds of those people and slowly prepare them for future plans. "I hope you didn''t lie about this¡­" Rirak wasn''t satisfied by Aron''s answer. His child will be exposed to danger because of lack of hygiene and lack of medical help. ''Herbology can solve most of shit¡­but still I cannot guarantee safety¡­'' Modern world''s people had weaker immunity systems, and all of this was caused by relying on drugs in most of the situations. Vaccines were one of the greatest inventions, getting shot to become immune to particular disease. Aron could recreate vaccines in future, still it won''t be soon. ''I don''t even have simple metals¡­and I want to touch things like vaccine creation¡­'' His mind became absorbed in thoughts and searching for solution. "First, you will live with my friend. We will build a real penthouse, so you both have good lodging." White-haired boy decided to persuade Roger into letting them live inside of his house. "As you wish¡­" Their conversation ended temporarily and Aron went to ask old farmer for permission. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. "Foreigners? Are you insane? Man and little girl¡­ I hope you won''t regret your decision. I can let them live in one of my rooms. They are your responsibility¡­" Roger didn''t like the idea, still he agreed. "Don''t worry. They won''t cause any problem!" Aron assured Roger and left to call Sinas clan into their new temporary home. "You will live in this house for now. You need to learn this world''s language¡­" Paper mill wasn''t ready yet, and writing on skin parchment was inconvenient. It was time to resolve problem of Ian''s schemes. "In fact, I am not Ian''s nephew¡­I am his son." Joe confessed as his master''s prosperity was his priority now and nothing was more important. "INTERESTING! Hahaha! Let''s go and visit this father of yours!" Joe wasn''t happy but he felt his master won''t do anything rash. As Aron''s slave, his mind started adjusting to being slave of someone with high intellect. They arrived before Ian''s forge, Joe knocked at door. Knock! Knock! Knock! "I am coming!" Ian''s voice could be heard from inside and few seconds later door opened. "Hello! It''s you Joe and YOU! FUCKING SON OF¡­" Aron''s presence made him extremely angry, his arms started to shake from anger. "Father! Calm down!" Joe couldn''t let his father attack his master, so he tried to calm him down. "NO! Wait¡­Did you call me father in front of a stranger! Are you fucking kidding me?" It wasn''t simple to blurting to some random person. He told it to his most hated an enemy. "YOU BETRAYED ME! YOU¡­ MY SON!" Ian felt betrayed by one of closest to him people. His own son allied himself to his enemy. "Shut up. Your son''s life belongs to me! If you keep shouting like moron¡­I will order him to commit suicide." Aron was bored of this low quality performance and decided to stop wasting time with simple sentence. "YOU FUCKER! I WILL¡­" Ian wanted to attack him, yet something odd to him happened. Joe threw himself at him to prevent attack. It was pretty clumsy but effective. "Joe! What happened to you! I AM YOUR FATHER!" Ian couldn''t belive his own eyes, Joe was ready to fight him to death to protect Aron. "I told you. His life and mind are mine. Can you start using your brain or should I sent both of you to hell?" Wasting time with those fools wasn''t productive. Aron needed to arrange people to build new house and accelerate process of paper''s production. "No! Don''t kill my son! What do you want! You all are the same! Fucking screwing around and treating human lives like shit¡­YOU KILLED BOB!" He wasn''t over previous events, still his son was in hands of this devil. "Become my servant and follow my orders! Second option is go to hell with your son!" Aron gave him two options and 5 seconds to think. "OBEY YOU! NOT IN THIS LIFETIME!" His dignity and mind couldn''t allow such thing to happen. "Ok. Joe, go and hammer your head!" Joe expression turned into grim, still master''s order is impossible to disobey. He picked a hammer and swinged it at his head. Ian became terrified and shocked, his son was under some kind of spell. Hastily catching arm of his son, he stopped tragedy from happening. Joe started to struggle to finish his order. "STOP! I WILL DO ANYTHING! MAKE HIM STOP! PLEASE, HE IS MY ONLY BLOOD!" It was desperate struggle, life of his hand hanged on thin thread and he couldn''t do much. "Joe stop. Will you become my servant?" Aron needed to secure support of all Amber village leaders. "Yes¡­ Just let my son go¡­" [Ian wants to become your servant. Do you accept him?] ''Yes.'' Their conflict was finally resolved and Aron controlled every area in the settlement. None was opposing him anymore, and he could proceed to next step in his plan. Ian couldn''t plot against Aron anymore. Servants weren''t able to betray their master, however they could decide to stop serving Aron. "I want rebuild this village. You will support me in the future. Wait for my orders¡­" Atmosphere was pretty bad as they didn''t really like each other. Aron didn''t care much about previous events, and it wasn''t him that got bullied and killed by some trashes. Another matter was in first try, he killed them all without mercy. ''This area is trash¡­ I need find better location for foundations of my city.'' Amber Village wasn''t in best position, soil wasn''t fertile and there were no unique resources in surroundings. ''I settled those two matters. It''s good moment to try techniques from Rirak''s world.'' All other matters could wait as developing more strength was more important. The gluttonous demon physique required consuming huge amounts of calories and perform weird exercises. It had many stages and every stage brought upgrade of user''s physique. The only problem was the side-effect of this technique. Every stage of this technique made user more and more gluttonous. Technique was cheap because of one simple reason. It was too expensive to cultivate to later stages. Side-effects were permanent, and you couldn''t stop cultivating because you had no money to buy more and more food. [Gluttonous Demon Physique lv.0(0/10K)] ''I don''t lack food.'' His farming space could bring him infinite amount of vegetables, crops and fruits. A ranch will bring him meat and animal products, so food source was secured. 42 Planning. His hunger grew, but all calories transformed into proficiency points. Calories were transformed into weird energy that slowly refined his body. ''I should create the pottery workshop and glassmaker workshop too.'' Improving simple life by creating glassware or pottery was necessary step into a future. His thoughts went through status windows, and it was simple mess. Many skills and professions to train and many things to reinvent or resources to find. ''I need sand¡­ There should be some sand in forest.''Getting sand to create glass wasn''t hard, sand was almost in every part of world. It could be anywhere and not always on a surface. ''Getting my hands on copper ore is good too.'' He went to Ian''s forge and took piece of ore to add it to system. [Resource: Copper detected. Generating mines.] [Mines] [Resources: Copper (0.5 tone/day)] ''I want iron¡­ and steel¡­'' Copper was good conductor but it''s use in daily life wasn''t so good. It was too soft and too plastic. Paper mill was finally finished, first batch of paper was already made by workers hired by him. Job didn''t require skill or talent, so couple men were good enough for this task. "Rirak¡­I need to teach you language of this world!" Rirak and Selise couldn''t communicate with rest of the village. It was rather inconvenient to leave this without any interference. "That''s quite a problem¡­I could ignore this fact¡­but my daughter shouldn''t be isolated like this." They were outsiders, still Aron planned to make them part of this community. Rirak could become the hunter and little Selise couldn''t be hated. She was just too cute. His lessons started from an alphabet and simple words, comprehension of little girl shocked Aron. She was able to memorize all things after few repeats. "Few days and you will able to communicate with villagers." It was honest remark from white-haired boy. Sinas clan ability to learn was close to his own with help of the system. [Teaching skill generated.] [Teacher profession unlocked. Teacher lv.0(123/5K)] [Boost: 0.1 INT, 0.1 CHA] His first choice was to grind professions and get some upgrades in attributes. Points meant to be spent, there was no point in saving them for future. Increasing strength didn''t make him instantly stronger, body required time to adapt to new strength. His storage had good supply of processed stone blocks, bows, some simple herbal mixtures and sculptures. It was time to search a way to exchange those things into useful resources and money. ''I need to start building mansion for me and my servants.'' Sinas clan couldn''t live forever inside of Roger''s house. They could communicate on basic level due few days of Aron''s teaching, still Aron promised better place for them. White-haired boy called few men and started to design his mansion, and he decided to hire carpenter to take care of supply of wooden parts. Mansion will be biggest building in village. Two floors, dungeon, attic, training hall, servants wing and few more bigger constructions. It will be one of his bases as building city is long term plan. Time required to prepare project on such scale was too long, and he couldn''t live inside of old house. Another important matter was to slowly influence other villages into submission. His first target was Clay Village. Health problems, unreliable village chief and dangerous surroundings with poisonous animals. Rirak was sent to forest in search of sand, meanwhile he was ordered to catch animals and bring them to village. The point was to catch them instead of killing them. Aron planned to domesticate them inside of Ranch space and bring them to village. Space could breed animals faster, still settlement needed something realistic to believe in huge amounts of meat. There was small problem of complete food chain disruption inside of the forest. His hunting speed was insane and weaker predators will have problems to hunt something to eat. ''I need conquer this forest. It''s existence isn''t necessary¡­'' In process of human colonization, many forests were cut to create space. First cut the trees and then plant new saplings to make yourself feel better. ''I will think about this later.'' Planning so much into future wasn''t good, he could leave this place and never come back. Aron drew small map of safe zones inside of the forest and passed it to Rirak. Boy didn''t know full capabilities of retired killer, so risking encounter with demonic beast wasn''t necessary. His first investment was adding some points into charisma, art and intelligence. His brain was modified to fit his genius from previous life, still his intelligence wasn''t developed to this point yet. Intelligence was beyond first human limit which was 10 and it required 2 points for one-point increase. Art became his hobby, thing he didn''t respect in his previous life. This time, he could calm his mind a little during those actions. Creating beautiful sculptures was satisfying for him. Ambition of unreachable perfect sculpture allowed him to improve with his every creation. It was time to set off to Clay village, his plan was to establish himself there and spread some basic knowledge about hygiene and other necessities. Builders started to dig a foundations and underground floors, construction of such level will take at least month. Rirak was ordered to check quality of work to ensure that building will be safe and well-built. Most of his profession had their advancement locked, for example mason had advancement into artisan. It was locked as Aron didn''t meet the requirement to unlock this profession. Herbalist didn''t even show job tree.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. ''Problematic¡­I need to work harder.'' He left the village with determination on his face. [Name: Aron(Marcus Reave)] [Title: Worthless Bastard, Champion(Hidden)] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/Shiran] [Bloodline: White blood(13%), Drevon(15%)] [Profession: Sculptor lv.5(131K/250K), Archer lv.3(12K/50K), Bowyer lv.8(321K/1M), Beginner Animal Tamer lv.1(12K/25K), Teacher lv.1(1K/5K), Gambler lv.0] [Space: Farming lv.4, Ranch lv.2, Workshop lv.1, Storage, Library, Digging Site, Quarry, Mines] [Stats: STR 5.6, DEX 6.1, END 6.3, INT 28.3, PER 20.3, CHA 5.6, ART 5.5, LUK 1] [Points: WE 13532, SP 17, AP 3, KP 1231] [Talents: Axe, Poisons, Bow, Mace, Blacksmith] [Traits:] [Negative: ??, Hunger] [Positive: High-Capacity Brain, Hardworking, Strong Limbs, Ambidextrous, Eagle''s Eyes, Mutated Heart, Flexible, Strengthened Skull, Poison/Venom Immunity(Known snakes), Moderate Poison Resistance¡­ ] [Skills] [General: Plunder, Appraisal lv.15(112M/1B), Let''s Gamble!, Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Handiwork lv.5(Locked)] [Profession: Teaching lv.1(3K/5K), Gambling lv.0, Sculpting lv.5(125K/500K) Smelting lv.1(1K/5K), Weaving lv.0, Smithing lv.0¡­] [Fighting: Military Archery lv.4(321K/1M), Roger''s Footwork lv.3(47K/100K)] 43 Working at Clay Village. Aron didn''t hurry to Clay village, measles epidemy won''t happen in near time. He decided to use this time to slowly explore surrounding plains and search for resources. This world had dangerous beasts, still, they were quite rare and mostly residing inside of inner parts of the forests. ''I need night creatures to enter my ranch.'' His plan was to spend the night outside and catch some animals that lived during the night. Infrared vision allowed him to see heat signatures and his high comprehension combined with fast reaction made a night like a day. [Common Long-eared Bat] [Traits: Blind, Ultrasonic Hearing, Strong Wings, Claws] [Skills: Echolocation, Screech, Fast Flying] ''If I add Ultrasonic Hearing into my traits¡­Will I hear every noise emitted by them?'' It wasn''t smart to get such power as turning his quite environment into world of noise would be troublesome. Traits would be saved into his plunder database, so he could decide later to get this ability. Bats weren''t so common, but he could find many of them over the plains. Those creatures hunted small animals and insects, so plains were good hunting ground. The next nocturnal creature was red fox, it was female searching for food for its cubs. Aron decided to observe from far and capture entire family into ranch. Some furs of animals such as foxes were popular among the women on Earth. He didn''t care, still getting animals into ranch and improving variety of creatures was important. Getting some new animals didn''t level up a ranch, so he decided to enter Clay village next morning. The village wasn''t far for someone with speed of a car. "Hello, I am Aron and came from Amber village. I am an apprentice of Carl, the herbalist of my village. ?Alex knew that Clay village had many health problems and they won''t refuse his help. It was great opportunity to establish position inside of this village. "Hi! I am Alex. I am village chief of this village. Since when old man decided to get new apprentice?" Carl and Alex were friends, so it was obvious that he was surprised of Carl sudden change of mind. "Around month ago. Do you know where I can spend few nights?" The white-haired boys knew that Alex would propose to him a lodging, asking was polite way to confirm this fact.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. "You can sleep in my house if you don''t have a problem with snoring! HAHA! Herbalists are always welcome in my village!" People with ability to cure diseases were rare and respected. In word where simple flu could claim your life, skilled herbalist was savior and hope bringer. "Yeah, sure! I would like to visit the marshlands. I heard about some herbs growing there, and I wanted to take some samples. So can you tell them, to come tomorrow?" Some parts of marchlands weren''t explored by Aron in previous life. "No problem! Come with me, I will show you your room!" Alex lead him to small room that was treated by him as guest''s room. Aron left with some bags to create image of herb gathering trip. Having villagers doubt his intentions wasn''t good beginning, so he needed to fake many things. ''Ok, let''s catch some of these snakes and toads.'' His talent in creating poisons wasn''t in any use, getting source of venoms and poisons will change this fact. This time, his target wasn''t only snakes. He could rear insects too, so why not? You could actually feed the other animals with insects and some of them had special substances in their bodies. It was useful for medicine and many other things. ''Freaking bloodsuckers.'' Rearing mosquitos was pretty stupid, however they could be used as food for chickens or toads. They might be annoying for him, but it''s precious meal for some animals. [Yellow Reed.] ''I found reed. It''s material for primitive roofs. People here don''t use it.'' A few hours, and he got all the interesting things from the surroundings. There were actually deeper sections of march. Advancing further required some preparations, getting stuck inside of mud wasn''t good idea even with immunity to most venoms and poisons. It was evening, so he decided to practice his archery and footwork. Footwork was pretty useful technique as it allowed him to move from place to place in more efficient way. The next morning big crowd gathered before Alex''s house, all of them came for consultations. ''I am fucked. It''s part of the plan¡­I understand why Carl didn''t have much time.'' Villagers didn''t came only with their own health problems, and they sometimes brought animals or plants. "Ok, line up! I check all of you! Alex, bring some order here." Aron shouted and Alex put them into line. The first one was an old man with a swollen cheek. The problem was actually a tooth, the boy said. "One of your teeth is rotten and it must be removed. If I don''t do it, the rest of your teeth will root..." Tooth decay was common problem of this era, so the most efficient way was removing a rotten tooth and try force patient to at least flush his mouth from time to time. "Do what you need! I don''t care!" Man wasn''t concerned about losing teeth, and his only worry was to pain. It was unbearable and it was obstructing him from comfortable working. The foul smell coming from man''s mouth was hard to bear, Aron decided to hurry and used string. It was simple method to remove tooth with rapid move. The person started to bleed from the mouth, panic appeared on his face and he was about start screaming when Aron said. "Bleeding will stop in few seconds. The most important part that pain should stop in a moment." His charismatic voice stopped man from further panic and allowed him to calm down. The pain stopped and man was extremely happy. "Flush your mouth with warm water for two weeks every day! If you don''t follow my instructions¡­Pain will come back in other tooth¡­" Aron didn''t even try to explain concept of bacteria to simple man, people will believe in gods, spirits and monster rather than viruses and bacteria. The patient after patient, he gave them some prescriptions and helped to heal their conditions. Some of them brought their cows and other cattle to him. Appraisal always showed him, the correct treatment method and if there was no way. It displayed possible strengthening mixes to help the patient''s immunity system fight the disease by itself. "Can I trouble with the little request of mine?" Aron wanted the new plants and searching all of by himself was not efficient at all. "Yeah. What is it?" Alex was intrigued by question of white-haired boy. "Carl is growing many different kinds of herbs in his courtyard. I decided to bring him some new and rare plants to expand his collection. Can you ask people to bring me if they find something weird or at least guide me to a place where it is growing?" Simple excuse of collecting plants to database to accelerate the process of upgrading the space. "I am sure. My village will be more than willing to help you. Thanks to your assistance, many people don''t need to worry about their lives anymore..." Alex was sincere with his statement. You could die of the simple flu, in this world and herbalist were respected and treated well in every village. Few hours later, people started bringing plants in big amounts. Most of those were already part of his database, still he got few new ones. ''If they could collect rare animals too¡­It would save me so much time.'' They weren''t best people for this job, most of villagers were afraid of snakes and toads. The venom or toxin could send them to hell, so risking wasn''t option for them. 44 Tricking Alex. The village became livelier as many people were happy with regained good health. Aron couldn''t heal every disease or condition, still he could treat more than any other herbalist of this world. ''I should get some kind doctor profession. I can try to learn acupuncture as I read some book about positions of meridians and acupoints.''Simple herbal medicines weren''t enough as their effectiveness was only working on not serious conditions. The world had spiritual plants and even stronger diseases, viruses, poisons and monsters. ''I wonder¡­If I could advance into a new profession from Herbalist¡­'' His profession didn''t show any advancement for now. [Host shouldn''t use simple thinking on system. Not visible is not the same as not existent.] ''It''s truth. Let''s search for ways to improve this to other level.'' Aron started pondering how make Alex his servant as it would be important to control Clay Village from inside. ''I might challenge him to battle¡­He has warmonger personality, so he won''t reject!'' It was impossible to someone on his level to beat Aron in battle. The white-haired boys went to Alex workshop and said. "Good morning! I was searching for you, Alex!" Aron started conversation with smile on his face. "Hello, kid. I am little busy right now! Can you come later?" Alex was working on stone blocks and he was serious about his work. "I want to spar with you!" Kid didn''t waste anymore time and stated his intention. "WAIT, what? Look at yourself! You are kid and you want to fight someone of my level!" Alex felt that his pride was hurt. "Are you scared?" Mocking was simple method to make Alex lose his cool. "YOU FUCKING SEE! I WILL BEAT SHIT OUT OF YOU!" Every bloodline affected people in some way or another. Red orcs were warriors and having their blood in your veins made Alex warmonger in body and mind. "Let''s bet! I want this spar will be more interesting." Kid''s words made Alex confused, boy was about to be beaten into pulp and wanted to bet with him. "I want you to be my servant if I win! If I lose, I will do whatever you want! I can be Clay village herbalist for life!" This was weird bet, but getting herbalist for village was attractive offer. "OK! STUPID BRAT!" Alex charged at him with anger on his face. Clay village chief didn''t have any particular fighting style, it was more like straightforward strength domination. White-haired boy wasn''t afraid of his strength, and simple sidestepping allowed him to be untouchable. "STOP JUMPING AROUND! FIGHT ME!" Alex couldn''t hit and it made him even angrier. "As you wish! My servant!" Aron decided to finish this battle in one hit, using new acquired technique power fist. Aron shortened distance with his speed and punched Alex into face. Man immediately lost consciousness, this punch contained strength of 8 men. ''I overdid a little¡­good that he is alright.'' Alex will be unconscious for few hours, and his head was pretty hard and durable. Aron''s arm muscles started to hurt, technique didn''t bring strength without cost. It couldn''t be multiple times in the row as muscles could be ruptured or even entire arm crippled. Alex woke up after few hours inside of his house, there was big bump on his head and a headache was unbearable. "FUCK! What happened?" His last memory was kid asking for a spar. "OH my freaking god! I was knocked out with one hit¡­" It wasn''t something easy to accept, he was very strong and experienced fighter. Not many people can beat him up. "You lost. You need to become my servant." Aron entered room with bizarre expression on his face. Alex didn''t take this bet serious, yet he lost. "I cannot leave this village. What do you want me to do? Your laundry or cook for you. It can be done¡­"It was irritating, still he lost the bet and dignity didn''t allow him to go back on his word. "It''s simple! You will be my servant in this village!" Aron couldn''t say any words like ''feel desire to be my servant''. System worked in some odd way with accepting servants. [Alex wishes to become your servant. Do you accept?] ''Yes.'' It would be uncomfortable for both sides if this conversation continued. "I feel different. I am your servant¡­What are your orders?" Alex didn''t comprehend this situation, and he lost to herbalist''s kid and got weird thoughts inside of his head. "It''s simple. I want to control this village. Don''t worry! I have good intentions." Aron slowly explained things to Alex. The most important was to change mindset of people, rebuilding village wasn''t important. "Ohh. I want you to find few reliable people for me." The idea was to get some smart people to control the villages, while he wasn''t there. "Ok. I will call some people¡­Not now¡­ My head hurts like hell¡­" It wasn''t good idea to go like this to village. Bump and bizarre talk would make people think that he lost his mind. "Go tomorrow." Time was on his side, so it wasn''t needed to be done instantly. ''Bricks? Pottery? This place is perfect for those professions!'' His idea was to build two workshops, getting stable flow of bricks will be good for a future. The next day morning, Alex brought few reliable people. His friend Jack, Samantha, his assistant, one of the farmers and odd-looking lady. White-haired boy charisma was pretty hard to resist. Few minutes of explanation and persuasion made most of them join him and rest needed little bribe. "Ok. I will draw a plan of two important buildings." He drew a design of pottery and few other devices. It was important to make them little independent. ''I cannot stay entire day and build devices for my every project.'' Training reliable servants was important to his effectiveness and efficiency. The simple tasks could be done by others and he could use this time to do other more important things. ''Two more villages to prepare¡­'' There were four villages in this area, and he wanted to control all of them. Copperhead village and Red Maple village, first was village with mines and second was village with great hunter family.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. ''I will go back to Amber Village and make Carl, Casper and Roger my servants.'' Those people with Ian were important in the villages. Confirming their support would allow him to proceed with plans without unneeded worries. 45 Rogers regret. Aron went back to Amber Village, his mansion was slowly being built by a villager. Fortunate, Rirak managed to find sand. ''It''s time to create glass!'' The material itself was important to chemistry and overall improvement of lifestyle. The modern world was filled with glass products, and he planned to slowly improve this world too. ''First Carl. It will be easiest to persuade him.'' The old village chief was already in his grasp, so making him servant wasn''t a real problem. Father of Rose and Roger will be a problem for sure, those people belong to the category of stubborn morons. "Hello, Carl. How are you?" The white-haired boy started a conversation from something casual, Carl was an old and experienced old man. "Hey, kid. I am still alive. What do you want?" Chief knew that kid wasn''t a person who would idle around without any particular reason. "Ohh, I came to ask you to work for me as my servant!" It was a straightforward approach, talking about things with the old man was useless. "Why? Look at me! I am fucking dying old man. It''s stupid¡­I guess, you will FUCK¡­Threaten me again. Whatever¡­" Carl was feeling helpless and angry, he couldn''t go against Aron anymore. The village started to change in good direction, and boy was reason to all those improvements.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. "No! I want you to promise me one thing! I need to ensure that you will pass down herbalist knowledge to someone in this village!" Old man deeply cared about fate of Amber village, another important thing was ensuring his legacy go on. His master made him promise same thing, Aron could be considered his half-apprentice. His herbology was even better than his, he was little too old to teach normal person to level of usefulness. "Ok. I will find someone to pass your skills. Don''t worry!" It could be said that Aron''s knowledge about herbs came from Carl. He taught him in previous life and boy only improved this skills with assistance of system. ''It''s not stupid. I need to teach couple of herbalists to ensure health care in village. It will take long time before, modern medicine can be utilized here.'' His thoughts wandered to other two important figures in village. Roger wasn''t person who will bow down to anyone. [Carl wishes to become your servant. Do you accept?] ''One down. Two to go.'' It was time to visit Roger and try to persuade him slowly, it was better choice as Casper had pretty bad relationship in previous Aron. It will be definitely harder to make him a servant. Roger was sitting on bench before his house, while Selise was chasing around after chickens. Old man was looking sad, Aron decided to ask about reason. "Good morning. Why are you looking so down, old man?" Roger looked straight into boy''s eyes and said. "Good morning. Kid¡­You see¡­Presence of little girl reminded me about my past¡­" Old man had problems with talking about those topics, still he continued. "I had son and wife, they were slaughtered by bandits many years ago. Fucking BLACK WIND BANDITS! I¡­" Man deeply regretted being unable to protect his family, white-haired boy found the solution for recruitment. ''I will find those bandits and bring them to him!'' The idea was simple, solving old man''s life''s regret will definitely create debt of gratitude. The real problem was Casper, their relationship wasn''t good in the past. Convincing hunter to join his cause will be harder and there is his daughter. Hybrid like himself, ticking bomb that can explode anytime without warning. [Quest Generated] [Roger''s Regrets.] [Goal: Find culprits of Roger''s family slaughter, ??, ??] [Reward: Roger''s gratitude, Servant system upgrade, ??] ''Question marks?'' Quest was simple, still question marks made entire job more complicated. [Question marks in quest mean hidden goals or hidden goal''s rewards.] ''It doesn''t matter. Let''s add sand and other things to system.'' Rirak brought couple things from his trips to forest. His agility and experience allowed him to reach places, Aron couldn''t at this moment. [Sand added to digging site] [Hedgehog added to ranch.] [¡­] ''It''s good to have servants. They can do tedious work for you!'' Running around the forest and searching things wasn''t interesting and it was too time consuming for Aron. The insects like earthworms were reared inside of big container with soil. Others were set almost free to fly around the ranch and farm space. It wasn''t necessary to pollinate flowers in farming space, still those insects that relied on nectar needed those things. There was only day in space, so those insects basically could work at any hour. ''I have butterflies¡­It would be nice to get bees and produce honey!'' The bees could be found in forest, however he didn''t see any hive yet. Both of them could easily communicate in village, little girl became popular and befriended Rose. Sometimes, she talked about things from her world. Some things won''t be reinvented in near future, still many things could be recreated if necessary materials are available. ''Where I can find those bandits?'' His thoughts didn''t only fall on quest, but there was possibility of getting some riches from those rouges. The bandits plundered everything that could be sold, most of these items were exchanged to alcohol and gold. Most of groups had a leader and he could store things in his vault. It was great opportunity to get some capital before entering the Blood city. Aron didn''t know much about bandits and his only way was to search some traces of their activity or ask around other villages. None wanted to mess with such people, still some meat or fur could open most of the mouths. ''I need to instruct Ian to create glass making workshop¡­'' His idea was to use glass blowing method, so he needed some tools. Ian wasn''t happy to see his boss, still he received all instructions and few blueprints for tools. Aron''s blueprints were always clear and descriptive. Ian liked working with Aron despite of hatred from the past. Stupid and simple minded, still he was craftsman in soul. White-haired boy provided blueprints for things that was outside of his reach, it was great opportunity to improve his skills. "So Ian¡­Why did u hate me in the past? I was only simple child¡­" Aron was curious about his reasons and entire thinking. "It''s all your father''s fault¡­" Blacksmith described situation when Aron''s father instructed his servants to beat him to ensure he will remember to destroy Aron''s life. "Why? I was stupid child but to destroy my life! He will regret it! His entire family will regret it!" His mind was filled with anger and desire for revenge. ''Calm down! I am not Aron¡­still it would be bad if I left them without proper punishment.'' His mind thought about experiments in the future and Drevon clan will become happy volunteers. 46 First spiritual animal! Two weeks passed, Aron''s mansion was completed and Sinas clan moved inside. Ian completed the necessary tools for glassmaking. Everything was ready to start production of glassware. ''It''s great. None in Clay Village or Amber Village know anything about bandits.'' It wasn''t easy to find those bandits, and none dared to follow them after their visit. Gluttonous demon physique wasn''t easy to obtain, boy was consuming high number of calories every day and proficiency didn''t raise by large margin. It was irritating as food was bland because of lack of spices. ''Strength required sacrifices.'' In his case, it was mostly time and bland food for every meal. [Congratulations. Pig(Brenda) activated her hidden potential.] Aron was surprised. Feeding his animals with fire spark herb finally worked. [Brenda] [Species: Pig(Evolution in progress.)] ''Evolution in progress? What the hell?'' He focused on pig and it was in state of deep sleep. Her body temperature was very high and there were visible swelling on different parts of her body. ''Interesting!'' Aron decided to watch the entire processes, evolution before his own eyes. His scientific mind couldn''t resist being at least witness of this phenomenon. The entire processes took two days and Aron made some notes about risks of this approach. The evolution could actually kill the subject, and Brenda was lucky that he was around to help her. [Brenda] [Hard Toothed Great Pig] ''It''s her evolution. Nothing great though¡­Her size is bigger than the cattle, and it seems her toots could maw metal.'' Pigs are omnivore, so there are many cases when they start chewing something inedible. [Hard Toothed Great Pig] [Desc: Spiritual animal of the lowest stage. Descendant of Diamond Toothed Great Boar.] ''Spiritual creature?'' His thoughts focused on a difference between the normal animal and spiritual animal. Brenda became bigger and stronger, ordinary animal couldn''t even hurt her skin. The opportunity of breeding such animals was heaven sent. [The ranch detected the first spiritual animal.] [Ranch level up.] [Ranch lv.3] [Functions unlocked. Accelerated growth, Accelerated Pregnancy] [Acceleration: 10 times] ''10 times faster. Does it mean chickens will grow up in days?'' It was something beyond comprehension as normal human pregnancy was 9 months. If use systems functions on humans, it would take only 27 days. Chicken''s egg needed around 21 days to hatch into healthy chick, ranch allowed to shorten this time to 2 days. Paper mill produced paper everyday, still amount was too small to cover all projects of Aron. He made decision to build more paper mills to increase production of paper. ''I didn''t think about it before¡­but I am short handed.'' The number of people in two villages was limited and not everyone wanted to cooperate with him. It was time to visit remaining two villages and search for trails of bandits. Rirak became new hunter in village, so people started to slowly accept him. Roger was sceptic about his existence as more experienced people could recognize killer from far. Casper was avoiding contact with him with petty excuses.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. ''I don''t really care about those things. They will be all my servants in future. I can always force them to work together¡­'' The people didn''t need to like each other to work in team, it wasn''t necessary and even sometimes boosted efficiency. Ian was teaching Joe blacksmithing, his attitude changed and he stopped hanging out with thugs. They were shocked by his change and didn''t know what to do. Their entire purpose was to mess around with their boss. "Master. I have small request." Joe came with worried face. Matter was important to him and Aron decided to listen. "What?" "I want you to allow my followers join you! Show them the way! They are lost without me! Could you please take them in?" He cared about fate of his followers, and they couldn''t find place in society after all those events. Some people might even want to take revenge on them because of their action under his orders. "Are you aware of their value? They are scum of society without any skill¡­" Aron didn''t want to accept them straight away as Joe takes it as granted. He needed to force his slave to learn how to deal with hard situations. "They are not useless! Most of them can work on farms. Harry was trained to be a hunter! It''s my fault¡­They could be good people. I made them mess around with my identity¡­Please master! I will take your punishment! Just let them join you!" Aron smiled after hearing Joe''s words, his slave wasn''t so stupid as he thought. Knowing value of your henchmen is very important skill, so Aron will give some task related to recruitment to Joe in future. ''If he can be taught. He can be useful in some ways!'' Joe wasted big part of his life fooling around, however, there are still long life ahead of him. Motivation and right education could improve his skills and mind to another level. ''I cannot let him be trash forever! He is my first slave! It would be shameful to have such slave!'' Aron decided to teach Joe in free time. "Ok. I will think of some kind punishment for you. I will take them under my wing!" It caused Joe to become happy, and those fools were his people. He was taught by his mother to care about his people, even if they were monsters. They were your monsters. The white-haired boy recruited all of the thugs and gave all of them tasks suitable to their skillset. One of them was taught by Rirak and few others were working around the village. ''It''s time to go to Ian''s hometown. Copperhead Village.'' Ian couldn''t follow him as he was too busy. The only choice was taking Joe with him. ''It''s only way¡­'' The solution wasn''t the best as his slave had terrible reputation in all villages. Villagers didn''t show their hatred because of his relations with blacksmith''s family. In other case, someone would kill him long time ago. "Joe. We are going to visit Copperhead Village!" Aron wasn''t enthusiastic about this idea, however he had no choice. Joe was familiar with road to Copperhead village and he knew people there too. "Yes, master! We are going to visit my mother!" Joe''s mother was living in Copperhead Village, and she was only daughter of village chief. 47 First stage of Gluttonous Demon Physique! The journey started, and they were simply marching toward the Copperhead Village. The distance between those two villages was about week of walking. ''Let''s search for clues and resources in meantime. I cannot fucking carry my slave to other village.'' It would arouse suspicion if they were seen and he could search for animals or minerals in meantime. Joe was happy to visit his mother, previously he was rather unfilial son and his interest didn''t fell on village matters or blacksmithing. Currently, his mind and behavior were changed by Aron''s influence and seal. His mother will be definitely happy about this fact. The white-haired boy used his extraordinary sight to search for anything precious or new in surroundings, still there wasn''t anything new. ''It''s time to cultivate¡­'' He felt that he is close to reaching first stage of gluttonous demon physique, still eating huge amounts of food wasn''t funny. Leaving this like this will make him focus on only eating, his mind needed to find solution. ''I need to learn how to cook. It''s tiring to eat bland food every day!'' System could allow him to become real chef and create delicious meals. Another thing was knowledge about nutrition and better ingredient combination. Joe was taking care of task from his master, searching for unusual spots in ground and digging the holes. His goal was to search for new kinds of stones, getting basalt, limestone or marble will be great for sculpting. ''There are only plains and forest around¡­It would be great to find some mountains or water bodies.'' Finding the river would allow him to breed fish inside of space, another advantage would be new kinds of plants. It was possible to create artificial lake near the village, it would open new professions for him and villagers. During Joe''s absence Aron set small camp, and started cooking. In his previous life, he could rely on entire team of chefs to get best dishes in the world. [Cook profession unlocked. Cook lv.0] [Skill Tasting created.] [Skill Ingredient preparation created.] ''It''s good. I might become great chef¡­'' The future of being versatile person wasn''t so great, not being able focus on one field of work was pretty annoying. His new plan assumed getting knowledge of a profession and passing it to his subordinates. Getting teacher profession allowed him to write teaching materials about anything. Simple farming could be turned into the thick book. ''Subordinates are important. Even with time acceleration my time is limited¡­''There were too many things to reinvent in this world, so he couldn''t focus on useless things. ''Sometimes quality is more important than quantity.'' It was more like quality should be always important than quantity. There were some fields that didn''t follow any rule and quality wasn''t important at all for them. The dish was grilled chickens, vegetable soup and berry juice. It was good enough, still it was crude as no seasoning was added and all of taste came from original ingredients. ''I need secure spices! I can use some herbs, still I lack knowledge!'' Some herbs could be used as spices, originally most of spices are herbs and it was processed by human. Pepper was one of plants and its seeds were spicy. Some plants were dried, some grinded and some added raw. All things were created by experimenting, simple plants could bring the best from dish. There was risk of combining two plants into poison, and cuisine similarly to science couldn''t improve without experiments. The meal was prerequisite of training, food was quickly ingested and turned into energy. His body was slowly refined by this energy part by part, it wasn''t easy process. The process was similar to muscle building, you need to first destroy muscle cells to build stronger ones. It took big amount of pain and effort to succeed in refining body into first stage of Gluttonous Demon Physique. ''I FEEL IT! FEW MORE MINUTES! AND I WILL BREAKTHROUGH!'' It was feeling of pushing door, and those doors were partially closed. Using brute force, it was possible to open those doors. BOOM! Pain ended and it was replaced by feeling of endless energy streaming into his veins. "ARGHHH!" Aron needed to unleash this energy on something or his body will explode. BOOM! He started to pound nearby tree with his fist, and every punch contained power of 10 men and tree began to crumble. Bang! Tree fell on the ground with loud sound. Aron still was filled with energy, so he continued his rampage on another tree. Half hour later. The energy could be controlled and he sat on the ground to calm himself. His arms were little sore and his fist in pain, still all of his bones were intact. ''My skeleton was reinforced. My body hard like stone.'' The strength increase was always good thing, and he felt happy about getting this method. Grumble! Suddenly, his happiness was interrupted by hunger. ''I need to FIND SOMETHING TO EAT!'' The gluttony wasn''t a joke, and those demons could eat 10 times of their weight and still feel hunger. Aron rushed to leftovers of his cooking and consumed everything in haste, this hunger was simply too overwhelming.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. It wasn''t near enough to satiate his desire, and he entered the space and started to devour food inside of his storage. ''Ohh¡­It''s over¡­'' This insane hunger stopped after consuming food for hour, Aron found out another problem. The ordinary food couldn''t be turned into energy anymore, and it was too inefficient. ''I need to find a way to resolve this¡­'' His thoughts fell on Brenda, and spiritual creatures should be more nutriment than ordinary animals. Brenda was pregnant before evolution and piglets didn''t come out yet. Killing her off for meat was a waste, he needed to control his urges until there will be more spiritual animals. ''I could always go hunt! This wolf is spiritual animal for sure¡­'' One things separated him from hunting down the monster from the woods. It was too strong for current him, rushing at it would be courting death. ''I will preserve with ordinary food¡­I won''t be able to cultivate to another stage for a while. Still it''s better than losing things.'' His food supply was almost infinite, so he didn''t need to worry about starving. The only thing was his world energy will be converted slower, side effect of demonic appetite. [Cook] [Boost: +0.1 PER] [Name: Aron(Marcus Reave)] [Title: Worthless Bastard, Champion(Hidden)] [Age: 11] [Race: Human/Shiran] [Bloodline: White blood(13%), Drevon(15%)] [Profession: Sculptor lv.5(131K/250K), Archer lv.4(23K/100K), Beginner Animal Tamer lv.5(123K/500K), Teacher lv.1(1K/5K), Gambler lv.0] [Space: Farming lv.4, Ranch lv.3, Workshop lv.1, Storage, Library, Digging Site, Quarry, Mines] [Stats: STR 10.3, DEX 11.8, END 6.3, INT 28.3, PER 20.3, CHA 7.5, ART 6, LUK 1] [Points: WE 42532, SP 19, AP 5, KP 1431] [Talents: Axe, Poisons, Bow, Mace, Blacksmith] [Traits:] [Negative: ??, Moderate Hunger] [Positive: Gluttonous Demon Physique(Stage 1), High-Capacity Brain, Hardworking, Strong Limbs, Ambidextrous, Eagle''s Eyes, Mutated Heart, Flexible, Strengthened Skull, Poison/Venom Immunity(Known snakes), Moderate Poison Resistance¡­ ] [Skills] [General: Plunder, Appraisal lv.15(352M/1B), Let''s Gamble!, Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Handiwork lv.5(Locked), Body Refining(G.D.P)] [Profession: Teaching lv.4(13K/50K), Gambling lv.0, Sculpting lv.8(232K/2.5M) Smelting lv.1(1K/5K), Weaving lv.0, Smithing lv.0¡­] [Fighting: Military Archery lv.6(321K/1M), Power Fist lv.1(12K/50K)] 48 Clues about bandits. They almost reached their destination, however Aron found some bizarre hoofprints leading in opposite direction of Copperhead Village. ''Horses? Deers? No, those are horse trails.'' Someone was visiting village using horse and means of transport. It could be anyone, still Aron had suspicion that it was clue about bandits.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. ''I need to find those bandits¡­earlier or later.'' He didn''t care about outlaws, the problem was when they were acting against him. As future lord of this land, leaving them without any action would cause necessary trouble for his people. In most cases one group will be replaced by another, but this region was really poor and not worth controlling. ''They are after copper? I don''t know about any other things that are worth staying in this shithole.'' Group like this needed money to function properly, lack of lambs to rob meant only one thing. There is some kind of reason, they are staying in this area for so long. ''Treasure? I need to find them and find out.'' Having strength of 10 men didn''t make him feel safer, his worries were even multiplied. ''If I can reach such strength in short time¡­Maybe, not anyone can do it¡­still there are people who can.'' World of magic and martial arts was filled with mysteries beyond any comprehension. Some of bloodlines allowed toddler to beat adults or even weaker monsters. He couldn''t lower his guard down, his achievements were only beginning of the road filled with blood and iron. "You are grandchild of village chief¡­Why are you so stupid?" It was simple question, Joe was descendant two most influential families in Copperhead village. Becoming chief wasn''t impossible, he could become blacksmith. The influence of his family could grant him any job, he wanted in surrounding villages. ''Still he decided to become retard¡­ People''s choices are sometimes weird¡­'' It wasn''t first case of wasted opportunities, he met many people who could have anything. They explained that if you could have anything, there is no sense in putting an effort. "I grew up without father. My mother couldn''t control me and I wanted attention of my grandfather. Messing around was only chance. He scolded me few times and started to ignore me. Years passed and I couldn''t go back as I didn''t learn anything to become reliable grandson¡­" It was simple story of ignorance and lack of proper discipline in family. "What about Ian? Isn''t he your father?" Joe said that he grew up without father, story was bizarre. "Ian is my biological father, still I didn''t know about him for first 10 years of my life. My mother told me about this relationship only because I was wasting my life¡­" It was reasonable explanation. His father was Ian''s brother, and their marriage was arranged by family. She and Ian were in love, but family didn''t care about such things. Joe was result of their last night together. Two years later, his father died in accident. "I hope you won''t waste anymore time. I need reliable slave¡­" It wasn''t kind of encouragement and warning at the same time. Aron didn''t need useless people, those people had special place in his plans. They would become fuel to science and medicine. There must be someone to experiment on. The copper village wasn''t any different from other villages, it was definitely bigger than Amber village. Most obvious difference were forges around the town and copper mines. The rest was similar or the same. [Terry] [Profession: Miner] [Traits:¡­] Presence of mines created jobs for people, mining and smelting copper ore into copper was crucial for those villagers. Joe explained their business with Blood city and surrounding villages. ''Copper is main ingredient for ordinary soldiers¡­It''s Bronze era, so copper is extremely precious for those people.'' It was the base of entire metallurgy in this moment, it will take them some time to get to era of iron or steel. ''I will be change bringer. Let me find iron ore¡­'' Steel armors will be impenetrable to bronze weapons, so he could practically create unkillable army and wage wars with mortals. Ignoring presence of thing beyond of ordinary world, it would be ultimate plan. Magic and monsters made this plan practically less realistic. ''You don''t need to penetrate the armor. If you can crush person inside¡­'' Aron spotted someone different than all settlers. [Filip] [Profession: Bandit] [Traits: Slick hands, Coward¡­] "Who is he?" Joe was part of Copperhead village, so he should know this person. "It''s Filip, he is friend of my cousin. They are hanging out very often." It was intriguing, person from village chief family was hanging out with bandit. There was something off about this situation, it was impossible for his cousin to know Filip''s identity. ''I will track him later. I hope he will lead me to his group.'' There was chance that Filip wasn''t part of Backwind Bandits, still it would be great thing to put down any bandit group. "Go visit you mother. I want to stroll around little more!" It was simple order as joe wasn''t good at being invisible. Aron needed to be mobile to follow Filip''s every step from far, having burden like Joe would cause failure or even discovery of his target. "As you wish. It''s building¡­" Joe described his house''s position and appearance to Aron, so he can get there on his own later. Following Filip was just too easy, man acted like he was king of this village. The villagers were nothing in his eyes, Aron found out couple of facts about relationship of Joe''s cousin and bandits. ''He is selling weapons to bandits cheaply and they ignore this village¡­ Good deal¡­Still problem is other villages are attacked from time to time. I need to get more information¡­'' From their conversations Aron discovered that Filip will leave village tomorrow at morning. There was still a lot time, so he entered the space and cooked a meal as his hunger started act up again. ''Is there a way to negate those side-effects?'' Aron asked system as it could do many different things. [It''s impossible at current moment.] ''Shit¡­I can live with this hunger still¡­'' There was no solution for now, so it will be one in the future or he needs to discover one himself. 49 Following the bandit. Aron followed Filip for few hours already and they didn''t reach bandit''s base. ''Where is he going?'' It was impossible to Filip spot him from such distance, his eagle eyes and tracking allowed him to be incredible at chasing people. A two hour later, he found out the destination of this man. It was the huge extinct volcano. ''Extinct volcano! Great news!'' There was a volcano nearby, so there should be some minerals or other precious things. ''I will search this area later. I need to find location of bandit''s base!'' Filip entered one of the caves with a bag. ''Profiting? Is he hiding part of deal from a village?'' Aron was happy about this information. He could steal those goods later from this person. A few minutes later, Filip got out of a cave and mounted his horse in haste. Aron decided to slowly follow him and explore this volcano later. The bandit''s camp was not far from a volcano, it was small settlement surrounded by small forest. It was invisible from outside, still Aron could see further and sneak closer to check situation. This bandit group consisted of around 30 bandits, they had small stable for horses and few huts. Bigger house probably belonged to their boss. ''I know their location. I could kill them alone¡­however I want to nurture good subordinates¡­'' He decided to take Rirak, Alex, Jack and Ian for this job. ''Let''s check volcano first!'' The opportunity to unlock new things inside of system was too important, and his speed allowed him to move fast like wind. Cave wasn''t wide or big, it was big enough to hide some riches inside. Boy started to scan around searching the bag that Filip hid. One of bigger rocks was pretty odd, and there were scratch marks on ground around it. ''Hidden under rock? Isn''t it too obvious?'' It was little too easy to find, Aron used his hands to move rock away. Psss! There was hole under rock and something started to pour out of it. It was acidic gas, boy immediately regretted his decision. ''There is sulfur lake under¡­ Acid is pretty useful.'' Acid could damage his lungs if he spent too much time inhaling it. He summoned small part of linen material and tied it into something similar to bandana. It was time to enter the hole. Aron closed his eyes and used echolocation to see, and entire place was filled with dense mist and visibility was extremely limited. ''It''s there!'' Echolocation didn''t show him color or exact image of a thing. It was like seeing vague shape of an item and distance from you. It was square shaped box, and it was probably a chest. [New substance detected. High concentration of Sulfuric acid] [Creating acid lake.] ''Great. It will be useful for many things.'' Acid was useful in many fields of modern science. Primitive people didn''t know much uses of it and thought about it as torturing tool. Some alchemists tried to create gold with it as ingredient, however it was mostly used in dying and searching for forged gold. ''I have acid now. It''s not the strongest, still it''s enough for now!'' Aron got out of a hole with a chest in his arms. It wouldn''t be easy to carry it for a normal person, but strength of 10 men allowed him to lift it without effort. The chest was closed with a simple mechanism; a boy didn''t care much about it and broke the lid. The most important were contents inside. After opening it he saw, copper ores, some coins, couple pieces of quartz and bizarre looking gem. ''I don''t recognize this gem¡­'' It wasn''t like anything on Earth. Its texture was crystal, but it was metallic at the same time. Its color was something between green and blue, his appraisal didn''t show name of it. [Mana Stone] [Desc: Stone filled with energy of the world.] ''Mana stone? Interesting?'' Aron decided to put into his system, something weird happened. [Spiritual resource detected. Host doesn''t meet requirements to unlock it in mines.] ''¡­'' System didn''t give him all information about conditions of unlocking skills, spaces and other functions. [Quartz added to mines.] [Copper added to mines.] ''It''s area of the extinct volcano. I should be able to find some minerals around!'' People didn''t know about riches spewed by volcanos. Another thing was lack of use for those things, they couldn''t even use iron effectively. Aron took out shabby looking shovel, and it was made from bronze. Digging around and putting every rock into space brought him some profits. [Magnesium added to the mines.] [Iron added to the mines.] [Basalt added to the quarry.]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Nickel added to the mines.] [Limestone added to quarry.] [Coal added to mines.] ''It''s good! I spent an only hour and got so many new things!'' Those metals will be slowly utilized in recreating modern technology. Limestone will allow him to create concrete, iron will be refined into steel. ''I need to learn proper blacksmithing. Ian was doing things blindly¡­ He might know how to process copper¡­still¡­'' Making simple tools from bronze didn''t require real talent or skill in blacksmithing, it was simple process passed down from generation to generation. It was time to rush to gather his people, and he planned to ambush bandit''s camp at night. It was afternoon already and he needed to explain things to his servants. Rirak and Alex didn''t argue much with him about this task. The problem was Ian, and he was coward and doing such dangerous thing was too much for him. ''Whatever¡­I will ask Roger and Casper.'' Roger had the personal grudges against Blackwind bandits, however it was hard to force him to follow orders of Aron. In his eyes, the white-haired boy was the inexperienced brat with monstrous talent in archery. "I found Blackwind bandits camp¡­" Aron explained the entire situations to Roger and old man became angry. "KID! WHERE? I WILL SLAUGHTER THEM ALL!" They took away love of his live and his only son. "I gather some skilled people¡­" Forcing Roger to calm down, while trying to explain the plan. It was possible for him to slaughter them all by himself. Simple methods weren''t always working and learning leading people into battle was good skill to learn. "I will go¡­and listen to your orders¡­if others didn''t refuse¡­I want to personally take care about person that killed my wife!" Roger agreed, so Aron informed him about time of setting off and went to Casper. Casper didn''t want to be a part of suicidal mission like this, still Aron persuaded him with threat of their attacking Amber village. "All ready? Let''s go!" His original plan was to reach bandit''s camp at night, yet speed of his subordinates was too slow. Their attack was postponed to next night. 50 Blackwind Bandits Camp! 1 The sight of nature and traveling in a bizarre company was pretty funny experience for Aron. Roger and Casper whispered to each other about the operation, Aron could hear everything with his extraordinary senses. Alex with his friend wasn''t happy to come back to old lifestyle, but it was for the future of their village. Rirak was used to such missions, and Aron felt his uneasiness. This party wasn''t reliable at all, abilities and experience of other members was unknown to him. ''It won''t be easy¡­'' Boy didn''t know if this was good idea to bring those people with him. Sometimes bad cooperation could make more problems than advantages in battle. A few hours later. The team was close to bandit''s base. All people needed to be at their peak state, so they made break to recover their stamina and strength. "It''s simple. I will go and take care of their horses first¡­." His plan was to sneak into base and steal their horses to cut off their ability to escape. The next thing will be slowly assassinating people on their watch and finally getting core members. Rest of the team will wait for his signal, and someone will be able to perceive it as most of them had great eyesight. "How will you take care of horses? Kid? What are you playing at? They won''t let us go if we lose! Stop playing with human lives!" Casper made good point. How to take care of horses without noise? Aron didn''t plan to reveal his private world to anyone. "It''s simple¡­I know magic trick. I can make things disappear for time being." It was stupid lie, still it was better than nothing. "MAGIC?" Alex was surprised by sudden exclamation of kid. ''Whatever¡­'' He decided to perform his magic in front of them. "Watch!" Aron took his bow and inputted it into storage. In eyes of onlookers, it simply disappeared into thin air. "What¡­" "I will take care of horses and we will proceed with plan!" Aron started to sneak into camp, rest of team was watching from far. Stable was close to entrance, so it wasn''t hard to sneak into it. ''Fuck!'' There was one guy taking care of horses, it complicated a little his plan. Walking without making any noise, Aron appeared behind stable man. The noise could raise suspicion of other bandits. The only way was assassination without trace. The white-haired boy caught person neck and broke it in split of second, no noise and trace. Bloodless and painless death, still he had no choice to finish off this person as fast as possible. Horses became uneasy and started to neigh and stomp ground with their hooves. ''Problematic¡­'' It wasn''t time to calm those creatures down, and he simply started to input one after another into his ranch. There were ten horses in the stable, putting them inside of space required physical touch. Horses knew that something wasn''t right, and they weren''t helpful with making noise and struggling. Dodging kicks and putting them inside wasn''t easy task, finally he managed to put them all inside of a ranch. ''Nice!'' Those horses will be interesting addition to his plans, improving farming with horse powered tools wasn''t bad idea. Improvement of ordinary people''s lives couldn''t be done at instant. Horses will be great temporary mean of transport, at least until he creates better technology. ''Time for a the signal!'' They saw the signal and started operation, Casper and Roger decided to use bow as silent killer. The rest used the traditional way of slow ambush and neutralization.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ''I cannot stay behind!'' Aron took out his bow and searched for the nearest targets. It was first battle using Serenity, craftsmanship of this bow was exquisite. ''Time for first blood!'' He found one of the bandits taking nap on a bench. The nap during watch was unacceptable as it could endanger entire camp. Swish! His life ended with one arrow, his head was punctured to the nearby wall. Meanwhile in boss''s house, man was sleeping in his bed. It was bandit''s boss. There were no worries for bandits in shithole like this. Villagers didn''t resist and city didn''t care about their existence. The most of his carrier as boss, he was sleeping without worries. The last few days were different, nightmares and feeling uneasiness were making his rest impossible. He woke up again with cold sweat on his back, and it was the noise of neighing horses. "Something is wrong!" Suddenly sound from the stable stopped, it was bizarre as horses didn''t calm down so fast. "I need to check it!" His rest was already interrupted, so small stroll to confirm safety of camp was good idea. Camp was too quite, boss searched for his henchmen assigned to keep watch. There was none visible. "I will get those bastards for slacking off!" Anger arouses inside his mind, he thought that his people went to sleep instead of keeping a watch. Swish! Bandit''s boss knew this sound very well, it was arrow penetrating the air. There was sound of something getting punctured to wall. "Intruders! ALARM! TO THE ARMS! WE HAVE INTRUDERS!" His voice made entire camp awake, Aron''s group was disappointed. They didn''t manage to kill many of bandits before direct confrontation. Casper was closest to bandit''s boss position and immediately recognized the loud voice. ''Fuck¡­'' He swore inside of his mind, and the plan was entering stage three. They needed to kill rest of bandits in direct confrontation with disadvantage of numbers. ''Time to regroup.'' Casper wanted to retreat and join forces with rest of the team, however he heard voice. "GET OUT OF HIDING RAT!" The boss of a bandit''s found out his position and rushed at him while screaming with his giant axe in his hands. ''Shit! I need to battle this moron!'' Casper wasn''t happy about this encounter. This battle required good cooperation, but he got caught in a duel with the strongest opponent. Rest of team needed to face rest of camp without him. "Hahaha! We meet again Black Arrow! I dreamed about this moment! HAHAHA! Fate granted me the opportunity to get revenge for your betrayal!" After seeing Casper from closer distance, he immediately recognized him. ''I cannot go back now¡­ Rest of team cannot know my past¡­'' His mind was filled with resolution, and he took out his daggers and rushed on his opponent. "DIE!" Both of them shouted and battle began. 51 Blackwind Bandits Camp! 2 Aron was surrounded by six armed bandits, it wasn''t easy to strike even with his strength and speed. ''Fuckers!'' They didn''t fight like ordinary thugs, and they acted like trained soldiers. It was like those bandits were trained to deal with inhuman opponent, they aimed at vital points and attacked in great coordination. Dang! The white-haired boys reflected attack of one of bandits, defending wasn''t hard. The problem was counter attack in such situation, and it was complete suppression. ''You want use numbers against me?'' It was time to test his fist technique in battle, killing one of bandits will weaken their morale and give him opportunity. He blocked another attack, and this time he immediately counter-attacked with power fist. BANG! It was a direct hit in a chest, and he felt like his fist was penetrating the ribs and reached the lungs. It was gruesome sight, his arm pierced man entirely. Blood was sprouting everywhere and other enemies became shocked. Normal humans couldn''t do such things, and none of them predicted that this boy was a monster "GET HIM!" One of them shouted to wake his comrades out of confusion, still it was too late. Aron was already striking another bandit. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ''Another one bites the dust!'' This time he pierced the throats of the man with fingers, man started struggling drowning with his own blood. Aron couldn''t stop as there was still four more to kill. ''My arm hurts¡­'' Strain from power fist was starting to affect his movements, and technique gave him great strength with strong side-effects. ''I can use it. One more time¡­maximum two more times¡­''Using it more than this could cause irreversible damage to his arm. The number of enemies was still great, if all of them were on the levels of this six. Others will have problems with dealing with them. ''I cannot allow this to continue. Losing any of my subordinates is unacceptable!'' He was still surrounded by four bandits, his oponnents were shaking from fear. ''Time to finish them off¡­'' The small feint allowed him to attack another bandit with a kick, the man was sent flying. The remaining three wanted to buy some time for their comrade, still his plan wasn''t to escape. He picked mace from ground and jumped at them. BANG! Crank! He broke weapon of his opponent and destroyed his skull, another one of the bandits met his end. The two didn''t want to fight him anymore, and they started to run. "HAHAHA!" It was perfect chance to finish them off, and boy took out his bow and shot. "Allow me to grant you a peace!" Aron shot two arrows with great speed, and those people didn''t have much chance to escape. He could see them from far, and darkness didn''t affect him at all. There was one of them laying on the grounds unconscious. ''Ohh! Want to sleep? Then never wake up!'' A boy crushed his throat using his feet. ''Let''s help others!'' Using good hearing, he followed to another battle. It was Casper fighting with man with great posture. Bang! Casper was in bad state, his body had few minor injuries and his breath was unstable. Aron needed to hurry to save him. "Haha! Your skills became rusty! We all respected you back then! YOU REPAID IT WITH BETRAYAL!" His voice was filled with anger and resentment. Pant! Pant! Casper had hard time catching his breath. "You are wrong, Robert. PANT! I didn''t betray anyone¡­ I WAS TIRED OF¡­" Every clash made him weaker, blocking strong slashes with daggers caused numbness in his arms. Robert decided to finish this battle, his people needed him and Casper wasn''t worth any more time. "Die, Captain!" Casper wasn''t able to block this attack or evade in time. His eyes were filled with sorrow and regret. "Sorry¡­I wasn''t able to raise our¡­" His last words were interrupted by arrow piercing through arm of his opponent. "HOW DARE YOU!" Robert became enraged after this sneak attack. "Hahaha! Old and stupid. Did I allow you to touch my subordinate?" Aron taunted bandit''s boss with loud voice. "YOU ARE DEAD, KID!" Robert pulled an arrow from his arm and rushed at the boy with wrath on his face. Bang! A clash of mace and axe was a great showcase of strength. The problem was their strength was matched. ''He is strong!'' The bandit''s boss was able to take hit from him and he didn''t show any sign of backing down. "HAHA! You are quite strong! HOWEVER! IT"S NOT FUCKING ENOUGH TO MESS WITH ME!" Both of them sped up and battle turned into complete gorilla warfare. BANG! BANG! PENG! His mace started to show signs of low durability, it was great problem. Summoning new weapon was possible, still he had no weapon with ability to stand against this axe. ''BULLSHIT! I could create steel¡­'' He was mad at himself because of lack of preparation. ''Power fist won''t handle his strength¡­'' There was still one more skill to use, and it was berserk. Aron was recultant to use this skill as he was losing his reasoning during this state. ''When I get back to a village¡­ I will create steel weapons, and none will mess with me like this.''Despite of his genius, lack of materials and technology made his progress very slow. ''I hope others can handle rest of bandits!'' The white-haired boy made decision to use his trump card at this moment. Meanwhile, rest of team teamed up to kill rest of camp. Their battle wasn''t easy, still they managed to win without casualties on their side. Roger got slashed with a sword, so Rirak needed to take care of his wounds. They didn''t have senses of animals like Aron, so they couldn''t find out about Aron''s struggle. First aid was necessary skill on every battlefield, experiencing many wards taught Rirak many skills and tricks. The blade missed organs, and still Roger''s stomach was open and someone needed to stitch him up. The problem was lack of thread. "I have solution for you¡­it''s not easy to endure this way though¡­'' Rirak didn''t know if it was good idea. The bleeding could be stopped with cauterizing. "FUCK! DO WHAT YOU NEED! I NEED TO GET THOSE BASTARDS!" Roger''s anger was kept him awake, however cauterizing without any painkiller was hard for a patient. "Don''t die! I stop bleeding!" Rirak took one of his daggers and started to heat it with a torch. Roger saw it and knew that process won''t be pleasant, yet there was no other choice. 52 Blackwind Bandits Camp! 3 Rirak put stick inside of Roger''s mouth to prevent him from biting off his tongue. It was time to cauterize the wound. The heated blade of his dagger was directly put on wound of Roger. "ARGHHHH!" The pain was so high that Roger screamed with stick in his mouth. The smell of burned flesh permeated the air, and the wound was closed. Roger was exhausted, so he lost consciousness at the end of the process. "Man¡­This looks painful¡­" Alex commented after seeing the entire process, and he wasn''t able to fight anymore. The trained bandits challenged their stamina and his body was full of non-life-threatening injuries. "It''s desperate method¡­ Some people died from pain during this operation. Other problem is a burn¡­." This method wasn''t perfect, it was used only in dire times. Humans are fragile creatures and sometimes only pain can kill them. Rirak was in good state, still other people needed his help. Most of them were unable to fight and leaving them was like death sentence. ''He is strong¡­'' Rirak thought about Aron and focused on cleaning Alex wounds. All of them were warriors, and still Blackwind Bandits were trained like soldiers. The battle was extremely hard for people like Alex or his friends. The battle between Robert and Aron reached crucial point, and boy''s mace was broken and he was forced into corner. "FUCK YOU, OLD MAN! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOU!" There was no other choice, and he summoned another weapon. It was broadsword made from bronze, it won''t be to withstand the exchange with Roger''s axe. "ARGHHH!" Using berserk was always hard for Aron, and his mind was filled with wrath. Turning himself into beast to win the battle was pretty low. His eyes turned red and every vein in his body bulged out. The sight intrigued Robert as he stopped his actions.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "HAHA! You made deal with the devil to fight me? IT"S STILL NOT ENOUGH! WEAKLING!" Robert saw something similar in his life. Putting everything on last struggle to win, some people were able to exchange their lives or minds for victory. "Let me end your suffering! BEAST!" They clashed and something odd happened, he felt like boy''s strength was multiplied by at least two times. "FUCK!" Aron wasn''t watching him, and he pounced with his sword without hesitation. "ROAR!" It wasn''t human shout anymor as pure wrath was controlling him and it was closer to beast than any intelligent creature. "I SURVIVED THE WAR! I WON''T LOSE WITH KID!" Every clash numbed his arms, and boy didn''t care if he had weapon or not. Clang! CLANG! Bang! Finally, he got hit directly in arm. The hit was so strong, that it broke his bone. "AHH! FUCKING DEVIL! I WON''T LOSE! I WOOOON''T LOOOOSE!" The odds wasn''t on his side, and it was moment of desperation. The will to life and will to survive. Kid didn''t care about pain or injuries, so his only way was to kill him. "I WILL SLAUGHTER EVERY VILLAGER! FUCKING COCKSUCKING DEVIL BITCH!" His axe was two-handed weapon, so he couldn''t utilize its full potential with one arm. Shouting and swinging his weapon didn''t affect boy much. BANG! Another hit and Robert were sent flying. BANG! BANG! PUNCH! Aron continued attacking him, it was like he wasn''t going to stop until he turns him into meat pulp. ''Am I going to die from hands of kid?'' Robert mind was filled with desperate thoughts, moment ago he was triumphing and he is laying without way to fight back. "FUCK! FUCK! SON OF THE GUN! COUGH!" Something snapped inside of his mind, surviving was more important than anything. Crunch! Robert''s eyes became black and he set his arm''s bones into right position. Bang! Aron was sent flying and hit the nearby wall with great impact. His body was strengthened by physique and rage, still it was quite powerful attack. Robert stood up from the ground his body started transforming into something different, his muscles bulged like he was injected with great number of steroids. His teeth became fangs and his hands grew a claws. His entire body was covered with fur, black fur. He became beast to fight another beast. Aron stood up and pounced again at Robert, the showcase between beast in human body and human in beast body began. Claws were easy to deal with as Aron didn''t pick his weapon again. His body was stronger than Robert''s, even if he regenerated part of his strength. The damage couldn''t be reversed so fast, boy pounded him with his fists. Every exchange left his body with new claw''s marks, his mind was focused on killing and defending had lesser priority. The beast couldn''t take his hits carelessly, and they were like hammers that could break through stone walls. BANG! BANG! BANG! The battle was nearing to the end, and he broke both arms of the beast again. Being unable to attack made it extremely easy to hit. Thud! Beast collapsed on the ground, Aron wanted to finish his job. Blood loss and exhaustion finally kicked in into his body. The effects of berserk started to wearing off and he started regaining his mind. "I am hungry¡­extremely hungry¡­" Those were last words he said before collapsing on the ground. His body was simply out of energy, and easiest way to recover was to sleep. A few hours later. Aron finally regained some strength and started waking up. He felt something odd, and it was heat near his body. Instantly opening his eyes and trying to get into a battle stance. He was laying next to camp fire and there was Rirak taking a watch few meters away. "The sleeping princess woke up. You are lucky¡­." Rirak was angry at Aron because of state of his body, they found him covered in scratches and blood. The worst part was his body was looking like mummy. ''In response for lack of calories¡­my body started to consume itself¡­'' The hunger didn''t disappear, so he needed to hurry and supply his organism with food. "WE WILL TALK LATER! I NEED TO EAT NOW!" The consequence of your body starting to consume itself was terrifying. Devouring everything edible in his surroundings wasn''t enough. "HUNGRY!" He ran off camp to enter the space to resolve his hunger. 53 Aftermath of battle. 1 His entire body was in pain, however the most dreadful part was intense hunger. He made sure that they didn''t see him vanishing into thin air and entered the space. The wounds on his body were cleansed and wrapped in cloth by Rirak, still many of them were still bleeding. Aron started to devour things from his storage, eating things raw without any preparation. It required him an hour to calm himself and start cooking things. Dishes weren''t too complicated, most of them were vegetables mixed with some herbal seasoning. His body started to regenerate and there was feeling of warm energy flowing forth and back through every part of his body. The cloth covering his wounds started to be in the way of vaporized blood. The healing factor raised his body temperature to such levels that water inside of blood was turned into steam. Removing all cloths from his wounds revealed his body covered in closing wounds, some of them turned already into scars. The most worrying thing was colour of his skin, it was bright red. ''I need to cool my body¡­'' The nearest thing was lake, he jumped inside without second thought. Water around his started to boil and create bizarre mist, few minutes later his body was stabilized. The only thing left was scars, he came back to cooking as it wasn''t nearly close to satiate his hunger. ''I look like the seasoned fighters¡­ berserks don''t care about getting hit¡­'' It was problematic, this time he won the battle and survived. Another time could go differently, for example if Rirak wasn''t there to help him. ''I need to get stronger!'' The fear of dying and inability to control his berserk was too overwhelming. The only way was to become powerful, in the world of magical creatures and martial arts his strength was insufficient. Time passed, and he managed to satiate his hunger, it was half of hour in outside world. It was time to come back to his team. "Where did you go? Wwwwhat? How did you?" Rirak was shocked by healing factor of the white-haired boys, some clans in his world had secret techniques to regenerate body at such speed. The problem was Aron wasn''t part of any of those clans. "Did you hear about Gluttonous Demon Physique?" The technique came from Rirak''s world, so he should be aware of its existence. "ARE U INSANE? It''s suicidal technique! None is cultivating it in my world¡­ Side effects are too strong¡­" The technique was taboo in mercenary circles, there was case of man losing his mind and eating his comrades during the mission. Constant need to consume food was too dangerous for people that needed sometimes starve for weeks in a dangerous environment. "I can handle it¡­ How are others?" His sight fell at Roger with covered stomach and others resting around the fire. "They should be fine. I took care of it. They need some antibiotics and painkillers. The most important is rest¡­" Aron wasn''t happy to hear those words, and he overestimated his skill and abilities of those people. Luckily none died, but it could be different if Rirak wasn''t there. "I will take care of them." Taking out some herbs out his storage and started mixing the concoctions. Creating natural medicine without any modern technology wasn''t impossible. Human kind lived for a thousand years without antibiotics and chemical medicine. Their lifespan was shorter, still they had their ways to deal with diseases and wounds. Creak! Aron heard someone opening doors, and it was boss''s hut. "Did you leave anyone alive?" Aron asked Rirak question with a worried look on his face. "All captives are there!" He pointed at nearby house, and a white-haired boy picked a weapon from the ground and rushed to boss''s house. BANG! Using strong kick to open doors created so much noise. There was one person inside of the building, and it was Filip. "DON"T KILL ME!" His body was shaking from the fear, and all of his comrades were dead or captured. There was no way to win with those monsters. "It''s you! You wanted to steal from me?" It was his loot and Filip wanted to take bandit''s treasures and run away. "NO! I WOULDN''T DARE! I WANTED TO HIDE¡­" His story wasn''t reliable, Aron knew about his stealing from this group. There was no honor or sense of belonging in this person, and he would betray anyone. "SHUT UP AND GIVE ME ONE REASON WHY SHOULDN''T I KILL YOU!" His life was worthless in Aron''s eyes. "I CAN GIVE YOU MY TREASURES!" Aron instantly smiled and said. "Why should I spare you if I can take them from your corpse?" It logical action, it was his right to loot defeated opponents. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "IT''s HIDDEN! YOU WON''T ABLE TO FIND IT!" Filip meant his stash hidden in cave, it was already in Aron''s hands. "You mean chest inside of cave?" The expression on face of bandits changed to desperate, it was his chance to cheat this kid. His situation became dire, no cards to deal and lack of means to escape. "I AM PART OF BIGGER GROUP! I am part of Red skull bandits¡­I was sent to search for treasure¡­ You will get killed if you hurt me!" His words contained trace of hessitation and Aron saw through him. "You are some kind of mob? None will care about you!" At this moment Filip lost his hope of survival, yet Aron didn''t kill him. He knocked him out and put with other captives. It was time to finish dealing with patients. Sooner they get his concoctions, faster they get on their feet. An hour later, all of them received the medicine and he went to meet with captives. Entering the building, he saw the depressed faces of bandits. Their lives were nearing the end, and Aron was like death himself coming for their heads. "KILL US ALREADY!" One of the bandits started screaming with insults, he was afraid of tortures and death was better choice for him. "SHUT UP!" Aron shouted and checked a person with his appraisal. [Mike] [Traits: Coward, Trickster..] ''Afraid of death, huh?'' Aron didn''t want to finish those people without getting additional rewards. Aron looked around and most of the alive bandits were worst scum. His sight fell on a person with worst state, multiple broken bones and terrible injuries over the body. ''How is he alive?'' It was dead man, still he was breathing and looking at him without any complain. 54 Aftermath of battle. 2 It was Robert. No longer covered in fur, he was dying and his body was in terrible state. "Cough! Did you come to laugh at me? I lost and I admit that your fate would be worse if I won. What do you want kid?" His voice was weak and filled with resentment. [Robert] [Race: Bearkin/human hybrid.] [Bloodline: Brown Bear Tribe(49%)] [Traits: Charismatic, Reliable, Ruthless, Crazy¡­] [Skills: Leadership, Military Training, Beatification(Uncontrollable)] "You are part of beastkin?" Aron already knew this, but he wanted to get more information from his captive. "I am bastard of bearkin¡­tossed aside like a trash. Stop asking stupid questions? Kill me already!" Pain was hard to endure for him. His healing from bloodline was getting weaker. "Few years earlier. Your group attacked Amber village and killed woman. What happened to child?" Aron wanted to resolve Roger''s problem and get upgrade of servant''s system. "Hahaha! We rape and kill every woman¡­Not exactly in this order¡­Cough!" It was provocation from him, and it wasn''t effective on Aron. "Do you want to die so badly¡­Let me tell you something. I will cut off your limbs and make sure that you remain alive for very long. I wonder if your bloodline will allow you to endure longer." It was blunt lie, and Robert won''t stay alive long enough to start tortures. "FUCK! Kid, you are ruthless¡­I would recruit you if we met in the past¡­Sigh. I will tell you. I am leader only for three years and previous leader joined stronger group. Red Skulls¡­ If you are searching for anyone we met during our plunderings. We rape and kill¡­children are sold to the city as slaves. Kill me already!" The pain was getting more intense, he decided to cooperate as he had nothing to lose. Fear of being tortured before dying was too strong. "Where is your treasury?" It was last question, boy wanted to spare time on searching for riches accumulated by those idiots. "GREEDY ASSHOLE! Fine¡­There is hidden room under my fireplace in boss''s house." Aron decided to finish him off. "You might destroyed Backwind, sooner or later some group come and you will regret your actions!" Those words were true, there will always someone to replace bad guys. Aron needed to hurry and create force to protect his people. The next bandits will be stronger and more ruthless as their predecessors were slaughtered by him.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Robert''s life was finished with one stab into the heart, it was fast and easy death. The rest of bandits saw their boss became corpse in seconds. Every possible chance of survival vanished with a heartbeat of Robert''s heart. [Plundered: [Plundered: Charismatic, Reliable, Leadership, Brown Bear Tribe Bloodline, Leadership, Military Training, Beatification(Uncontrollable)] The rest started to spill out all secrets and locations of hidden treasures to get easy death. ''I won''t add those skills yet.'' He got another skill that could give him uncontrollable strength with a terrible price to pay. Filip was only one left alive, Aron wanted to interrogate him later. His target was treasury and all riches of this group. The few moments later, he was in room with pile of coins and few other things. ''Some money¡­ and¡­hmm?'' There was something that intrigued him, it was a weird ornate chest. [Locked Weapon Chest] [Desc: Chest sealed with an odd mechanism. The user needed know combination to open this chest.] ''Combination? What the fuck?'' There were some weird knobs, still he was surprised by such mechanisms in middle ages. The chest was put into space and he continued barraging through the things. [Detected Salt. Adding to mines.] ''It''s salt. It will be useful for seasoning and trading.'' People didn''t know about methods to extract salt from sea water. Another thing was there was no sea in proximity, nearest one was on another side of a kingdom. As he packed most of the things from this place, there were two bizarre parchments on one of the shelves. [????] [????] Appraisal didn''t show him any information and contents were in unreadable. It was some kind of language, and he didn''t know. It looked ancient like dead languages from Earth, still it was impossible to understand its contents without proper research. ''I will take care of it later.'' There was nothing to do inside this camp, they needed to wait for wounded to recover before departing. ''I should talk with Roger. He should know about things¡­'' Robert gave him some information and there was very thin chance for Roger''s son to survive until now. ''It isn''t about their living or not. It''s about honor and revenge.'' Roger blamed himself for their death, so getting person responsible was only way to resolve his resentment. He approached Roger who was still laying in provisional bed with a grin on his face. "Hey, Roger. How are you?" The question was pretty stupid. "Nothing much. Only some unbearable pain and burned a hole in the stomach¡­." The answer was filled with sarcasm, and still Roger was happy because of his visit. "We got them. MONSTERS THAT GOT MY FAMILY!" Roger wasn''t aware that previous leader of this group left. "This leader wasn''t leader at that time. That person already left and joined stronger group. We will get them sooner or later!" Aron decided to tell him truth, he deserved to know that his worst enemy was still alive. Roger''s expression changed to his usual grim look, there was feeling like he was relieved. ''The worst thing than being unable to take revenge is¡­not having a target for the revenge.'' Revenge brought more anger and emptiness. There was none to hate and there was only sorrow left. His mind could continue to focus on revenge, so he didn''t need to feel sorrow. ''The problem is pain won''t go away. It will get only stronger with every year¡­'' Aron knew pain of losing someone dear to him and understood feelings of Roger. "I will join you. You are good kid¡­I know if I follow you¡­You will grant peace to my death family." His words were honest, Aron needed to deal with Red Skulls as they were in way of his plans. [Quest Completed.] [Roger''s Regret I] [Rewards: Roger''s Gratitude, Servant System upgrade, Charisma +5] [Quest Generated] [Roger''s Regret II] [Goal: Find Red skull bandits and kill previous leader of B;ackwind.] [Rewards:??] 55 Aftermath of battle. 3 [Servant system upgrade] [Host can copy abilities, talents, bloodlines of your servants.] [Host can improve their status with world energy.] [Host can give your servants talents, traits and skills.] ''Interesting.'' He checked pricing of simple bow talent and it was 100 times more expensive than adding talent to his status. [Imagine army of multitalented mutants in your possession.] ''That''s right. I can still improve my servants. It can be part of reward system for their contributions.'' It was simple case of reward and punishment system. Aron entered hut to interrogate Filip, and his connection to Copperhead Village will be great. "I want to know everything about deals with Copperhead Village." The next step was gaining control of Copperhead Village, mostly controlling the blacksmith family. Red maple village was last stop before going to Blood City. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "I have deal with Blacksmith family. In exchange of bronze weapons and copper ore, we didn''t touch the village." His suspicions were confirmed, those people didn''t care about wellbeing of other villages. It was understandable, always put your people before others. "Where is base of Red skulls?" He didn''t plan to rush to kill them, but knowing location of your potential enemy was good thing. "Far from here. They have couple smaller groups to control the area around Blood city." Filip dodged giving exact location. "Ok. You have two choices now. Give me exact location and obey my every order. OR GO TO HELL!" Filip connections could be used by Aron, it could be done in other way. "I don''t know! I lied¡­ I have friend in other gang that was spouting some nonsense about treasures inside of fucking mines. AND HERE AM I." It was simple greed and he almost succeed. The mana stone of such size could grant him fortune. ''He can be useful. Hmmm. Let''s leave him alive.'' He needed to take control of Copperhead village and there will be opportunity to lead Joe''s cousin by nose. Filip will be good chess piece, killing him at this movement wouldn''t bring him any profit. "I will let you live¡­for now! I might spare you if your performance will be good enough." Those words reignited hope for survival in greedy bastard''s mind. ''I don''t really care about those people. As far they don''t mess with me and my plans. They can live¡­'' Some bandits were non salvageable, rapists, pedophiles and murderers. Those people were weeds that he needed to pluck from this world. The rest of them, bunch of greedy half brains could be still used with some teachings. ''Entire team is in ragged state¡­ People will think that it''s my fault¡­'' All of his subordinates were important to settlements. The death of any of them could create chaos in their village. "Aron. Can we talk?" Casper initiated the conversation, his expression revealed that he was worried about something. "Yes. What wrong?" The boy decided to be straightforward. "Did Robert tell you anything about my past?" It was quite interesting, still he didn''t ask about it. ''I should pretend to know something? Maybe, it will force him to reveal something to me.'' It was a simple tactic if your opponent believed that you know something. It will allow him to talk about it openly. "He told me some interesting things." Those words made Casper expression worsen a little. This change was slight, still, his acute senses could perceive it. "Ok¡­Let''s talk. Do you want me to talk about this or you already know everything?" Casper didn''t have anything to lose, a boy was slowly taking control of the village and it was impossible to reverse it. The killing was also out of option, there were still images of the battle between Robert and Aron in his head. This battle was definitely out of his league. The worst thing was that he discovered that Robert wasn''t even fighting him seriously, his pride was hurt pretty badly by this fact. "I want hear your version. I cannot believe entirely boss of bandits, can I?" Simple but effective method to get information from the source. "I am Casper. Villagers know me as simple hunter, still it wasn''t like this in the past¡­Many years ago, I joined army. I earned my title as black arrow by killing enemy commander¡­I was respected and someone saw my talent¡­ I thought I got opportunity of my life, but I was mistaken¡­I got recruited into special force. I was trained to murder and gather information. I found out cruelty of war, when I was sent to slaughter village¡­I admit¡­I was¡­No¡­I am monster! I did inhumane things for kingdom¡­ Robert was part of the same group as I am¡­" The simple case of vicious system, problem is that army needed such monsters to win wars. Soldiers don''t take responsibility for taking orders, but they are cursed for their lives. Many veterans cannot get back into society, their minds are corrupted by memories from battlefield. The lives of citizens are only statistics for higher ups of army. One settlement of villagers can be sentenced to death only because they could be supply for enemies. ''All is fair in war and love¡­'' Marcus wasn''t good person either, and he sent many people to their deaths. The science required sacrifices. "What about Rose? Who is her mother?" He didn''t use the word ''what is her mother'' as it would make Casper angry. "How? Robert didn''t knew about her¡­" The race of Rose was secret and Aron''s awareness about this fact was unexpectable. "I didn''t know. I felt something is off about her. There is something spiritual about her¡­You know what I mean." Implication was obvious, Casper started to panic. "FUCK! Who sent you? Are you part of this sick organization?" Casper was ready to fight for a future of his daughter, even if it was impossible to win. "No. I wasn''t sent by anyone. I saw her creating fire from nothing. I think even she wasn''t aware of this ''gift''." The truth wasn''t important, Casper heard what he wanted to hear. His daughter is safe. "Her mother¡­it''s not easy story¡­" Pained expression appeared on his face, still Aron needed to know if Rose wasn''t a treat for his future. "I want to hear it. It''s important." There was no escape from the past, so he forced Casper to embrace it. The stakes were too big, getting a powerful psycho on his back wasn''t on his wish list. "I met her during one of my missions¡­ She immiadately saw through me¡­ She pitted me¡­Imagine¡­ I could take her life anytime¡­but she saw through my mask¡­she felt my pain and saw real me¡­ I collapsed on my knees¡­ I started to speak about my deeds¡­ she said its soldier''s duty to follow the orders¡­ I felt like she was my sun¡­ I decided to protect her and later on¡­ We meet few times¡­ It few months and we fell love with each other¡­ When she became pregnant, I faked my death and wanted to take her away from this hell¡­ The worst possible thing happened to me¡­ She was kidnapped by bizarre organization¡­ It took me an entire month, but I found them¡­ however it was too late¡­ THOSE MONSTERS EXPERIMENTED ON HER¡­ THEY WANTED TO CREATE A WEAPON¡­ I infiltrated the base and saw her¡­ her body was deformed and her mind was simply¡­broken¡­my sun was taken from me¡­ I felt rage¡­ I was ready to go on a rampage¡­ then she saw me¡­ saw my wrath and said¡­.Save our daughter¡­ I am already dead, but she deserves to get a chance¡­ leave with her ¡­. FORGET ABOUT ME¡­ I found my daughter in another room¡­ I needed to protect my daughter from them¡­when I left the building¡­I saw an explosion¡­ it was her¡­ she sacrificed her life to make sure that they won''t chase us¡­" Aron understood Casper''s worry. Rose was result of human''s experimentation, human-made hybrid. In his mind, she was failed as possible future events and mental instability. ''There are mad scientists in this world. I need to be careful¡­ I am a perfect test subject¡­'' The number of mutations on his body made by system grew with every day. Every scientist would want to research such body and mystery behind it. 56 Return to the village. ?Kid. What are your plans? You do bizarre things in the village. Building things, showing off to the left and the right. Attacking bandits? What''s next? Raid on the Blood city? Ohh, you know what? I don''t want to know. I want only my daughter to be safe¡­" Casper opinion was accurate, considering view of an ordinary person. Aron was unpredictable and most likely crazy. "I plan to improve lives of those villagers. INCLUDING your daughter. Don''t you want to see your grandchildren playing on the courtyard without worries about hunger and sickness?" It was direct question, and he won''t be alive forever. His body was becoming weaker with age and even if he could guard her against every danger. There are still hidden ones like diseases or hunger. "I know what you are implying¡­I cannot become your weapon. Not anymore¡­ I lost my edge during those years¡­ and I don''t want to step on this path again¡­" Casper didn''t want to become killer again, and it was something he hated about his past. "I don''t need you to fight. I need you to pass your knowledge to next generations. Become instructor! teach archery¡­hunting or assassination. I don''t really care about your past. So what do you think?" Teaching killing is like creating weapons, you are not responsible for death caused by users of those weapons. "I will think about it¡­" His face revealed unwillingness to help a young leader, and Aron was still too inexperienced. All of them could die if not luck and Rirak''s first aid. Their conversation ended, boy found out few interesting facts and failed to recruit Casper. It wasn''t his last call in this matter. Sooner or later, father of a hybrid will be working for him. Few days later, they were prepared to leave. Most of them required days to rest, yet staying in bandit''s camp wasn''t clever idea. They were extremely important, and many people in villages started to panic by now. ''I need something that will take their attention from those wounds¡­'' After few minutes, he came up with brilliant idea. ''I will just make carriage and pack some food from space. It will look like some wounds were worth getting injured.'' Simple idea and all people will belittle the injuries and focus on riches in carriage. Building simple carriage to transport wasn''t hard, the problem was to tame those horses. Those animals were used that bandits were their owners and didn''t want be mounted by others. The taming and teaching those animals to pull the carriage took them five days, not mentioning time spent in workshop space. [Beginner Animal Tamer lv.MAX] There were actually three possible job advancements of this job. The animal trainer was simple job that allowed him to train animals more proficiently. The animal breeder was job focused on breeding and improving quality of your population. Last job was Animal Tamer, direct advancement in taming. ''Animal breeder? This job will be useless with my ranch.'' The ranch was controlling breeding of its inhabitants. Getting such job wasn''t useful for him. [Host is wrong. The animal breeder profession will grant host knowledge about breeding of various animals. The more knowledgeable host will increase performance of ranch functions.] His thoughts fell on important issue, villagers didn''t know much about breeding, taming or handling of animals. ''My thinking was too shallow. I need improve my knowledge to pass it to my subordinates.'' The better way to advance civilization was educating people with science and general knowledge. Math, physics, chemistry and many other scientific fields that didn''t existed yet in this world needed to be established. The laws of physics could work differently in this world or even not exist because of magic and other supernatural occurrences. ''My knowledge has not many uses in this world. At least not at this moment. I need recreate technology to use my knowledge''s potential.'' Although, he was genius in his previous life. All basic technology was available for him and recreating entire civilization was small challenge. Other thing was danger from supernatural beings and primitive people. ''This body is only 11 years old. Haste makes waste. I can carefully build civilization and gain strength to protect myself.'' There were many issues in middle age world like Destia. The group came back to Amber village with carriage full of food and other things. Everything went as Aron predicted, most people didn''t care about injuries on their bodies. They were greedy, still two people cared. These people were Carl, Rose and Selise. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, FATHER?" Rose was worried as Casper was covered in cloths and there were some visible wounds on his body. "Nothing. I just overestimated my body a little. Go inside. We will talk about it later." Casper tried calming her down and avoid making a scene before all those easily influenced people. Creating unneeded panic won''t help anyone. "NOTHING? I was worried that you will never come back! AND U SAY IT WAS NOTHING! I HATE YOU!" Aron observed her carefully and there was small fire inside of her eyes for a split of second. ''Her power started awakening. I need to do something¡­'' He needed to think about solution because she could turn into a crazy witch anytime soon. ''Is it psychological problem or spiritual problem? Or fucking both?'' She could have some mental issues and resolving such thing was definitely easier than fighting fire elemental. ''I need talk about this with Casper. He might be her father, but I will give him no choice. I cannot let this walking bomb to endanger my future¡­Killing her is possible solution¡­'' Easiest way of resolving a problem is pretending that it doesn''t exist or remove the source of a problem. [Animal Breeder lv.0] [Boost: +0.1 Cha, +0.1 INT, small chance of triggering positive mutation in your animals] ''What is this small chance?'' The conversation between him and Casper was postponed to another day. Casper was ordinary person and healing his wounds will take many days, even with herbal mixtures prepared by Aron. [Animals herded by host can mutate into unique variants. Small chance is something below 1%.] [Chance of this event occurring is very small. The host can think that it''s random.] ''Will this chance improve with animal breeder profession?'' This was in fact unusually important question, if he could get more mutated animals. The traits could be absorbed by him, and it would furtherly improve his strength. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Yes. This chance will grow with every level of Animal Breeder profession.] 57 Roses issues. The conversation with Casper won''t be easy one. Coming to someone and telling him that his daughter is sick in the head was like slap in the face. ''I need to carefully choose words or it will get messy¡­'' Aron didn''t want to anger Casper, and he wanted to resolve Rose''s problems. "Hello, Casper. I came to talk." Casper became little irritated by Aron''s presence. "I told you I would think about it. I still need time to think!" His voice was filled with displeasing and he was ready to tell Aron to scram. "You can take as much you need. I will respect your decision. I came to talk about Rose." Casper immediately started to regret talking about his family matters with the boy. "What? Don''t mix Rose into this¡­" This conversation is going to be hard. "STOP! I want you to tell her about HER ORIGIN AND PAST! If you don''t do it. I will do it myself! Imagine, she will hate you for life." Aron decided to change approach, he wanted to be polite and Casper wasn''t cooperating. The only choice was simple threat. Using such approach was pretty bad for future of their relationship, still Casper wasn''t irreplaceable. ''I was to good for those people. This body is young¡­ I cannot let them push me around¡­'' His attitude needed to change, stupid needed strong leader to show them their place. "You! How can you? YOU CANNOT DO IT! You put me under the wall¡­" Casper knew that someday Rose will discover the truth about her mother. He fed her with lies about sickness, still in fact she deserved to know the truth. Creak! The doors opened and Rose with angry expression entered the room. "Past? My origin? What does he mean? Tell me! What did you hide from me?" Casper feel like suffocating, first getting threatened by boy and now his daughter overheard their conversation. "I¡­" Casper was struggling to say a word. "I knew it! YOU! You all were lying to me! VOICE IN MY HEAD WAS RIGHT!" Temperature in the room started to rise. ''That''s bad! She loses control. I need to do something!'' Aron was thinking about the right words. She was mentally unstable and sudden revelation of lies wasn''t helping. "Rose calm yourself down. Let your father gather the words first. I understand you feel betrayed and angry¡­ Let him explain himself!" His charisma could affect her a little and her anger was weakening. It wasn''t permanent solution, and everything will depend on words of Casper. "Listen. You mother wasn''t village girl¡­" He told her entire truth excluding some drastic details. "WHY? Why didn''t you tell me earlier? I don''t understand¡­ I am effect of some experiment¡­ I AM FREAK¡­" She started to cry and suddenly ran out of the house. "NO! Wait¡­" Casper wanted to stop and comfort her, still she wasn''t listening. "SEE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! It''s all your fault¡­" Feeling of helplessness filled his mind. His baby daughter was blaming him for not telling her about their past. "I will go after her. Calm yourself down and prepare yourself to talk her." Rose didn''t need his self blame and stupid thinking. They needed to live for the future and leave past behind them. Aron ran in direction of Rose, and his speed was extremely fast. Catching up with a teenage girl was effortless matter. "What do you want? Leave me! ALONE!" Her anger was ignited and power inside started to awaken. There were small visible flames swirling around her body, she needed to calm down or matter becomes serious. "Why? You want to be alone? I get it. You were lied to¡­ It''s hard moment of your life and I came to help you get through it. You were there for me. WHEN I WAS ALONE AND HELPLESS! WHEN I WAS¡­ Let me help you." Rose expression started to ease with his words, she helped ''him'' many times in the past. "You don''t understand. I am freak. Look at me! Those voices want me to kill you! Get away from me or I might hurt you!" Fear of hurting someone close to her was overwhelming, so she wanted to push away Aron. "Don''t worry. I am not afraid of you power." Aron approached her and he felt heat of surroundings, still his goal was to charm little girl. "I will be there for you. You won''t be able to hurt me. You are too gentle¡­" His words moved her entire soul, and voices inside of her head were demanding blood. "HAHA! YOU THINK THAT SIMPLE WORDS CAN DESTROY MY PLANS!" Something took control of Rose''s body and started to shout at Aron. "YOU HUMANS ARE ALL THE SAME! HAHA! I WILL FUCKING BURN YOU ALL!" Small fireball formed above her hand and she almost threw it on him. "Yo¡­you cannot! I won''t hurt my friends!" Rose didn''t let the voice control her body and resisted. Gaining back control resulted in fireball to disappear. "YOU! YOU WILL REGRET IT! I WILL KILL¡­" Angry voice started to fade, yet it was still inside of Rose mind. "Rose. Are you okay?" All things could be done later, he needed to support or her mind will collapse. "They were only whispering¡­I almost¡­" She collapsed from mental exhaustion, and Aron picked her up and carried her back home. "What?" Casper saw his daughter unconscious and was about to become angry.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "She is exhausted. Let her rest¡­We will talk outside¡­" Aron whispered to him to prevent Rose from waking up, she needed some sleep to sort her thoughts and calm her mind. "Ok." They left the house and Aron said. "The problem is broader than I thought. There is something inside of her¡­" He started explaining the events from few minutes ago. Casper wasn''t surprised and said. "There were some incidents in the past. When she was little, she started to threaten me¡­ I belittled this as it didn''t repeat later¡­however, I still remember her shouting that she will slaughter all humans¡­the hatred was real¡­" The white-haired boy started to understand the issue. Rose''s problem is related to events of the past. ''It''s possible that a child was infected with hatred of mother. Other case is that their experiment not only fused bloodline of elemental into human¡­but it fused consciousness of elemental into human.'' Aron didn''t know what to think. His knowledge about paranormal things was too shallow. His existence was best proof, and they put his soul into Aron''s body. At the first try, there were two souls in one body. ''What if soul of elemental entered Rose''s body?'' He felt like resolving it needed a lot researching and assistance of someone with knowledge about souls. 58 New ideas. Rose woke up the next morning, and she calmed down and talked with Casper. Her problem was temporarily stabilized, still, Aron needed search for a solution. [Quest Generated] [Name: Rose''s Issues.] [Goal: Solve Rose''s issues.] [Reward: random elemental bloodline, Rose''s gratitude, 10 k KP] ''Solve her issues? For god sake really?'' The task wasn''t impossible, though it required to get things that were currently outside of his reach. This matter needed to be postponed, even if it was dangerous. Aron couldn''t help her in any way at the moment. His thoughts wandered to Copperhead Village, where he left Joe. His only task was to compete for next village chief position. ''He should be okay. His mother should help him¡­'' Joe wasn''t reliable person before, currently he tries hard to meet Aron''s expectations with all his might. The issue is people don''t change over night and Joe needs long time to become a useful person. Joe was grandson of village chief and his father is from blacksmith family. Having two families as backing could allow him to take over village without problem. Joe didn''t have such ambition and he wasted time with his friends. Aron forced him to change this fact and lost years made him worst candidate for any position. ''I got two bizarre scrolls¡­ Language barrier¡­.'' During his previous life, he knew most of the basic languages, and it allowed him to communicate with almost everyone. Destia was the world full of unknown and learning two or three languages won''t solve anything. ''I should find a way to communicate without knowing language? Or simply learning it so fast that it won''t matter!'' Brilliant idea appeared inside of his mind, finding way to improve his language acquisition skills to next level. ''The easiest way is too learning many different kinds of languages. Any recommendations, system?'' Anything could be digitalized by system, so why not digitalize godly level of language skill. This opportunity couldn''t be missed. [Host wants to improve language acquisition skill. Use library to get necessary materials for this process.] ''Yeah. I can purchase various books to improve my language.'' This was simple method to improve ability to learn languages at fast speed. His idea was straightforward, let''s start with languages similar to those he already knew then move slowly to harder ones and finally try decrypting or learning dead languages. [Host can buy unknown pack from library.] [The random travelers got some books from Earth and book were inputted without translation to the library.] [Those books can contain profound knowledge or useless scribbles. This is not important to the host.] [Their price is low and host can use them for language training.] ''I have currently 1532 KP¡­'' Getting knowledge points required mastering skills and it was long and tedious process. [Earth unknown pack ¨C 200 KP] ''I hope it''s something useful.'' There were many things that he could actually use in this world. The books were in digital form inside of library interface, Aron started to go through them and segregate them into groups. The first group was easiest to learn, languages with big similarities to languages known by him. For example, English and German shared many features, and many words sounded similar or even the same. The second group were languages without connection like Arabic or African. The third group were languages of the past, for example Sumerian or Coptic. Aron spent few days on encrypting book in Polish, this wasn''t so easy. Russian could help him to understand some words, still covering rest of them was hard and after working for many hours. [Skill Beginner Language Encryption generated.] ''This is freaking not efficient at all. I am too slow¡­'' His mind focused on searching new solution. ''Should I put all my skill points into this skill¡­No¡­This solution will only grant me temporary boost.'' His points will run out very fast and leveling up will be even harder after using them. Suddenly, he remembered researching person with talent to read multiple pages at the same time. This was real multitasking, separating mind into two or more threads and letting them focus on their respective tasks. ''Multitasking¡­Training it shouldn''t be hard.'' He could basically get this skill without effort, working on two separate thoughts wasn''t hard. The issue was quality of work, normal humans could only focus on one thing and second thing was done automatically. There was phrase that person cannot talk and listen at the same time. His method of training multitasking was simple, using left hand he was sculpting the animal and using the right hand he was writing recipe for his favorite food. [Skill Multitasking generated. Multitasking lv.0(1/200K)] ''Nice. How does is it work?'' It was interesting skill, doing multiple things could make him more efficient. [Skill Multitasking is unique skill.] [Skill cannot be upgraded with skill points.] [Host splits his consciousness into multiple threads to do multiple things at the same time.] [Every thread can focus on separate thing.] [Every thread has access to system functions.] [Number of threads = 2 power level of skill.] [Currently it''s 0, so 2 power 0 is 1.]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ''I know fucking basic math¡­'' Doing multiple things at the same time, improving multiple skills simultaneously and multiple more possibilities opened by this skill. ''I struck gold with this idea.'' Aron was happy, still it wasn''t moment to triumph. This skill needed to be grinded with sweat and blood to use its full potential. The days passed and his skill finally reached first level. It was interesting feeling; his mind was split into two separate threads. They could work together or separately on different things. It was time to leave space to check village and catch some fresh air. It was middle of summer, people were focused on harvest and their animals. ''It''s so quiet and calm.'' Life in a village was peaceful and boring. There was not much thing to entertain him. ''Their entire life is around working. It''s pretty bad¡­''Everyone needed some kind of stress reliever, or their mental health will be in terrible state. Simple villagers had their holidays, but it was three to four times in the year. ''That''s pretty sad. They work so hard to survive, and they cannot even go to bar¡­'' His mind was so focused on recreating technology, so he forgot about basic things of healthy society. Suddenly, he heard Joe screaming and panting heavily. "MASTER! I NEED YOUR HELP! PANT! PANT! MY MOTHER¡­PANT! PANT!" His breath was unstable and he could collapse in any moment. "WHAT?! Tell me! What happened?" It must be serious if he ran the entire way from Copperhead Village. "MY MOTHER DISAPPEARED! HELP! PANT! MASTER!" It was too much for his oxygen deprived body, he lost his consciousness and his breath started to slowly stabilize. ''I need to go to Copperhead and investigate!'' Joe couldn''t give him any useful information in this state, Aron decided to leave him and go alone to check situation. ''I hope it''s nothing serious.'' The bandits were dead, and it would be too soon for another bandit''s group to arrive. The situation was bizarre and unpredictable, Anna was important figure in Copperhead Village. ''Let''s find out!'' His speed was higher than horse''s speed, so he sprinted on his own feet. 59 Investigation. Aron reached Copperhead Village in short amount of time. The village was calm, and nothing was out of the norm. ''What happened? His mother disappeared and none cares about this.''Anyone would panic if their children disappeared. White-haired boy decided to talk with Anna''s father to get some information. The Copperhead was richer than all other villages, so house of village chief was magnificent. ''This state won''t last any longer. They might be currently richer¡­ I need only to find someone to sell my goods.'' The journey to a city was important matter, his storage was full of various products. From simple sculptures to animal products. Knock! Knock! There was sound of a footstep and few seconds door were opened. "Yes? How can I help you?" The old man with long beard came out of house with an unfocused look. "Good afternoon. My name is Aron and I am friend of your grandson Joe." It was important to introduce yourself to person to create good impression. Simple words could make a target feel that you are not complete strangers. "Joe¡­Where is he? Did you see him or my daughter Anna?" Old man asked with worry on his face, and situation must be serious. "Joe is at Amber Village. He asked me to find his mother¡­" They exchanged few sentenced and Aron discovered that Anna disappeared few days ago and she wasn''t first disappearance in the village. Many people went missing during last week. There was no trace of kidnapping, so they thought people just left on their own. ''All of this is suspicious? Why would those people leave out of sudden?'' This case needed investigation and there were too many missing pieces to solve it now. "Can I search the house for potential clues? My senses are kind of special. I can see, hear and smell more than ordinary people. I am a hunter and herbalist¡­." The old man was ready to sell an entire village to get his daughter back, however there was none coming and asking for ransom. There was no trace of resistance, so none would suspect kidnapping. Aron entered the room of Anna, and something immediately caught his attention. There was empty wooden cup on the small table. ''Left in hurry? Room is too clean¡­ Nothing out of order, this cup don''t match.'' They say the room is reflection of your personality, there was some truth in that. Anna''s room had everything organized, there was no trace of dirt on a floor. ''It''s pretty unusual. I think she has OCD about cleaning and order¡­'' He thought that it was possible only for people in modern society. Her case surprised him, and he decided to inspect this cup. [Wooden Cup] [Desc: Empty cup with some leftovers of sleeping mixture.] ''I knew it. Someone added it to her water¡­there was no resistance because she was sleeping¡­'' The problem was this didn''t lead him anywhere. People were drugged and kidnapped, still he didn''t know who and why did such thing. ''I need look around the village and get some information.'' There could be some kind of trail or clue around the village. Checking wouldn''t hurt and he might find something that will lead him to culprits. His presence in a village made villagers act weird, and some of them averted sight and others simply closed doors of their houses. ''I don''t understand. What''s going on¡­'' Any initiation of dialogue ended in failure, people simply treated him like air or some kind evil. "They won''t talk to you. You are connected to my idiotic cousin." It was the second competitor for village chief position, Joe''s cousin Jeremy. "Killing aunt and getting rid of body? So much effort to become village chief?" Aron decided to strike Jeremy with simple accusation. "BULLSHIT! I don''t know where is Anna! I think she decided to go to city search for work suitable for her body! HAHA!" Jeremy didn''t like Anna and he didn''t hide it. Their conflict is known to an entire village, still it wasn''t reason to kill each other. "Whatever. I will just tell village chief that you are related to this matter. We will see." Aron didn''t want to really say anything, there was high possibility that chief won''t believe him anyway. "HAha! Do it. Spit your bullshit anywhere you want." Jeremy wasn''t stupid like his cousin and knew Aron bluffed. ''I want to rip his filthy mouth off¡­'' It wasn''t right moment to act, and this village will be in his control and making himself a public enemy won''t be smart move. ''I have no place to sleep. I will temporarily leave a village and come back later.'' He formed a plan to observe a village from far. ''They won''t act during daytime. Let''s take this time to work on something.'' Something bothered him very much, he had no weapon for close combat. There were some scrapped weapons from bandits, still there was nothing good among those weapons. Robert''s axe couldn''t be used anymore, the rest could be considered as metal scraps. ''What about this thing I got from Robert''s stash¡­'' His focus fell on sealed box, and it could contain something interesting and he decided to search a way to open it. ''It''s quite a bizarre mechanism.'' Aron started to manipulate knobs and listen to reaction of a chest, there was click sound when knob was in right position.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ''HAha. It''s gonna be easy.'' [Skill Lockpicking generated.] Click! Click! It opened and sight of interior was revealed to him. This weapon was made of bone white material, it reminded him of a knife made of elephant tusks. [Transiency (Glaive)] [Material: ??] [Desc: Weapon forged from bones of an ancient beast. There are runes on its body with effect of stopping any healing factor.] ''Stopping healing factor?'' The description was little odd and he decided to ask system. [Wounds caused by this weapon won''t regenerate until a host deactivate the runes.] ''How to control the runes?'' He worried about lack of magic or qi, and inability to use such artifact. [The weapon runes can be controlled with thoughts.] It was great information, and the sole problem was lack of skill in use of glaives. ''I need to learn how to use this weapon. Another problem to solve¡­'' He learned how to use many weapons, and still glaive wasn''t ordinary weapon. It was combination of a sword and spear. User of glaive needed to have some mastery of a sword and spear. ''What a bother¡­still it''s great weapon.'' His time was getting more and more limited, strangely he made his schedule even tighter. 60 Body limit? Searching for clues was pointless, he decided to observe the village at night. Someone kidnapped people, and the best time for kidnapping was night. During free time, he was sculpting and researching foreign languages. Multitasking was extremely useful, researching to different languages at the same time or researching language and sculpting an animal. Few days of observations didn''t bring him any news, and he was ready to go back to the village. The only good thing was leveling up his professions, and his archer reached the 7th level and sculptor reached maximum level. [Great sculptor] [Desc: Aspiring for greatness, attempting to create a masterpiece.] [Level Cap:15] [Boost: Int +0.2, Dex +0.2, Art +0.5, Cha +0.5] [Wandering Sculptor] [Desc: Searching for perfect muse, perfecting his skills.] [Level Cap: 15] [Boost: End +0.2, Str +0.2, Art +0.5, Cha +0.5] [Artist] [Desc:¡­]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Level Cap:10] [Boost: Cha +0.2, Art +0.2] ''I should get simpler job like artist and then move to one of more complicated ones?'' Sculpting became his hobby and learning new techniques was quite attractive to improve his sculptures. Current skill allowed him to produce good sculptures, still there was big room for improvement. ''Whatever. I will go for Wandering Sculptor. It sounds quite interesting.'' There was boost in endurance and strength, and he decided to focus on getting more power to defend himself. ''I didn''t focus on archery¡­ It''s bad¡­'' Battle professions were best way to get stronger, still he needed to focus on other things. [Skill Versatile Sculpting generated.] [Versatile Sculpting lv.0(0/500K)] [Desc: Mix of many sculpting techniques, picked around searching for best one. Wandering sculptors needed to focus on many fields to sustain themselves during their travels.] ''Interesting. Jacks of all trades and masters of none.'' Aron didn''t need to worry about mastering professions. System allowed him to master anything in short period of time. ''I got archer profession. I should find a way to get other professions such as warrior or rogue.'' Combat professions granted him new ways to deal with his opponents. ''I will probably get berserk profession¡­'' His way of fighting wasn''t skillful or smart, going berserk and using superior healing factor of a gluttonous demon to survive. Copperhead Village was quiet and peaceful, still he believed to find trace of his enemies and rescue kidnaped villagers. The glaive wasn''t easy to handle, and combination of two weapons was harder than both separately. The worst part of gluttonous demon''s physique was never ending hunger. Aron needed to do breaks every few hours to cook food and suppress his hunger. There was no feeling of getting closer to the second stage of this horrendous technique, and still advantages were greater than disadvantages. His food source was infinite, and power of a gluttonous demon already saved his life once. The cook job advanced into a chef, so his cooking skill became better. His gluttony demanded better quality food, and the only way to get it was using Brenda as ingredient. That mutated pig had 3 piglets to feed and luckily her mutation was passed on two out of three piglets. ''Which one of those will evolve next¡­'' Thanks to animal breeder profession, his mind was filled with techniques that assisted him in improving quality of his animals. ''My body is still weak¡­I feel like I should focus on my dexterity¡­'' Evading attacks was better than taking them on or blocking them. Another advantage of being more agile is speed. His berserk state combined with superior speed could be deadly. ''Let''s invest all points into dexterity.'' There were 9 attribute points to use, and he decided to use them all to improve his speed. [Host reached first human body limit in dexterity. Do you wish to invest a remaining point?] ''First limit of human? Am I even human?'' It was obvious that he was hybrid between Shiran and Human. There was no benefits of being hybrid, and his body was weaker than an ordinary human. [Host is half shiran and half human.] [Host DNA is damaged and shiran''s potential isn''t activated.] [Shirans have higher limits and it''s harder to reach them.] ''My DNA is damaged¡­ This body was basically retarded before my arrival..'' Previous host of Aron''s body was stupid and talentless. System allowed Marcus to get rid of most of issues of this body, yet some remained. ''Hybrids on Earth were mostly¡­infertile¡­ I need to fix my DNA!'' The interbreeding of species wasn''t part of nature. It was one of human experiments, there were cases when mixing two different kinds of animal created new one. Aron worked on genetic modification and found way to fix this issue. [Host isn''t infertile.] [There is high chance that host''s children will get genetic diseases¡­] ''I will find a way to fix my DNA¡­'' It wasn''t important to current him, yet being failure as man wasn''t an option for him. There were many women in this universe, he couldn''t live his life as monk because of his dead wife from previous life. ''Anesha was actually pretty sexy¡­'' His mind remembered smart poison expert from Death hand''s Dining Hall. ''She was experimenting on poisons. I could help her achieve things without killing half of population¡­'' Number of people who died in her dining hall was countless, however Aron felt that their fate was their own fault. ''I need to enter this facility once more.'' Last time, he was caught and threated like shit. He wanted revenge on this instructor. ''This person will pay for cheating.'' The death penalty for winner was ultimate bullshit, Aron wanted to get this guy and rip him into thousand pieces. [Host is not match for this person.] ''How strong this instructor was?'' Inability to take revenge wasn''t good information, and his curiosity was aroused. [The information is unknown.] [Calculations of his speed and strength from host''s memories make him few times stronger than current host.] [Those calculations don''t use his peak performance as base. This person might be stronger than 100 hosts.] ''BULLSHIT! FUCK! Gentleman revenge can wait for 10 years¡­NO! 10 years is too fucking much! One year is enough.'' His determination was reignited and he started madly training in archery. The improving strength required putting giant amount of effort. His body was currently human and he reached the first limit of this body. [Dexterity 15(1 Limit)] ''OH. How can I break the limit?'' The question was very important, his current dexterity wasn''t nearly enough to keep him safe. [Quest Generated.] [Name: Limit break(I)] [Goal: Break limit of your body.] [Reward: Bloodline purification (Any) +20 %] ''How? I don''t know any methods to break through my limits.] [Host should stimulate your potential to break your limit.] [The simplest way to achieve this effect is near-death experience.] ''FUCK! All your quests are dangerous¡­'' The dangers were connected to rewards, so he couldn''t complain much. 61 Copper Mines 1 . Aron had feeling that he will find the culprits, yet none appeared for almost week. ''What can I do? Those people left no trace to follow¡­'' The attitude of villagers and lack of new trials was depressing. Another day night, Aron was observing a village from tree inside of the forest. There was only silence around the village. Suddenly, he spotted to figures moving around the village. Aron activated his heat vision and found their destination. It was nothing other than house of Jeremy, they entered through window. ''Let''s watch! I want to know where they are taking him.'' It was great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. ''They are fast.'' Speed of those two was around half of his speed, and they weren''t ordinary humans. They were moving fast towards the copper mines, still they didn''t go to main entrance. Aron slowly followed them without sound, few hundred of meters away was another entrance. ''They went inside¡­ there are two guards¡­'' Aron decided to kill his way inside. ''Serenity!'' The perfect weapon for sneak attacks from long distance. Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! He shot the four arrows into unprotected guards, and they couldn''t even react in time. Those two were wearing odd looking robes with snake engraved on back. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Paul] [Profession: Acolyte] [Traits: Poison Junkie, Patient¡­] [Skills: Serpent Breathing Technique(Incomplete), Snake Bite(Fist Technique), Moderate Staff Mastery] ''Interesting¡­ Their extraordinary strength and speed comes from this technique¡­ It''s incomplete¡­I wonder if there is one with complete version.'' Another way to strengthen body was great thing. [Serpent Breathing Technique(Incomplete)] [Desc: Technique allowing user to cultivate his body. The muscles and bones become very flexible. Incomplete version allows user to get to first body limit and further improvement needs full version of technique.] [Plundered: Serpent Breathing Technique (Incomplete), Snake fist,¡­] After getting rid of bodies and dressing into clothes of one of corpses, he entered the mines. It was pretty dark inside, net of tunnels was great and luckily for him. There were some torches on right path, so he started to follow them. There was another acolyte on his path, Aron inspected him with appraisal. [Jayson] [Profession: Senior Acolyte] ''His strength and speed is nearing 70% percent of mine¡­'' The white-haired boy was hiding his face inside the hood. The person looked at him and said. "Why did you leave your watch?" He wasn''t aware of his identity, still if he gets closer or force Aron to talk. His identity will be revealed and battle will start, luckily someone shouted. "Jayson! Come here and prepare this fucker for ritual!" Jayson couldn''t ignore this voice and rushed further into mines. ''I need to follow him. I think he will lead me to victims.'' Jayson was fast, still in tunnels like this echolocation could locate people easily. Jayson entered big open space, there were tied people with odd looking symbols on their bodies. Aron spotted Anna in those people, and all of them were unconscious and didn''t react on anything. Jayson was talking with someone in robes in different color. [Ronald] [Senior Acolyte] ''This person is strongest out of them. He is at body limits¡­'' This made him stronger than Aron without berserk. Their battle might be little intense one, boy needed to be cautious. Jayson was drawing symbols on Jeremy''s body, meanwhile Ronald left. Aron decided to strike Jayson, at this moment. ''I need to wait until he finishes! Let''s take Anna away into space.'' The senior acolyte finished his job and said. "Finally! I prefer touching woman''s body¡­ It''s finally done¡­ Once ritual is done¡­ We will leave this shithole. Hmmm. Maybe, I should take one of the village girls for a ride¡­" Jayson thoughts wandering about next days, while Aron was slowly approaching him from behind. Stab! Aron used one of the daggers from storage. Jayson was backstabbed and fell on a floor with disbelief on his face. [Skill Backstab generated.] [Profession Rogue unlocked and activated.] ''Wow. New combat profession. That''s great!'' It will give him new techniques and unlock entire profession tree. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! HERETIC!" His happiness didn''t take long, Ronald came back with fury over his face. "HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU STAY ON WAY OF THE SERPENT!" He was holding bizarre staff in shape of serpent and screaming. "ACOLYTES TO ME!" His voice penetrated entire mines, few seconds later few other acolytes appeared with weapons in their hands. "KILL THAT BASTARD! AVENGE OUR COMRADES! FOR THE WILL OF THE SERPENT!" Aron didn''t have time to think about way to kill those bastards. Those people were trained and their bodies were improved by breathing exercise. "DIE! HERETIC!" There were seven of them, and he rushed into a nearby tunnel to gain advantage of terrain. Getting surround and fighting next to kidnaped people wasn''t smart move. Acolytes wielded many different weapons, only Ronald had Serpent''s staff. It was weapon reserved only for higher ranking members. ''I cannot use berserk again. I need to use my speed to kill them before they get me.'' His idea was simple, standing in narrow tunnel with glaive. It was perfect place for spear to shine, and those people didn''t see in the dark. He summoned his glaive Transiency and waited to strike. Those people had seen him with an only dagger, so they didn''t care much and rushed with great speed. "DIE!" One of them was faster than others, he wanted to earn glory with his mace. Aron thrusted his glaive forward into person body, he aimed at the stomach. Wounds that wouldn''t heal combined with surprise attack and his great power will do great damage. Glaive penetrated person''s body and man lost his entire will to fight, Aron withdrew his glaive and rushed at remaining six. His skill with glaive was low, still there was simple way to inflict wounds on enemies. It was madly thrusting his glaive at them, he was faster and stronger than them by large margin. There was no way to block his weapon, and they could only try to dodge. Aron didn''t need to inflict them fatal wound, even insignificant cut was turned into life threatening wound with his runic weapon. Unaware people started lose their strength due blood loss, even small cuts were bleeding continuously. STAB! Aron got another one with the strong stab through a chest, fast withdrawal and another attack. The one versus seven turned into five people struggling to defend themselves. 62 Copper Mines 2 . Aron killed one acolyte after another, and this weapon was stronger than he thought. The only one left was their leader, Ronald. ''Where is¡­this motherfucker?'' Ronald wasn''t in room with hostages, and it confused white-haired boy. "HAHA! I succeeded! DIE, HERETIC!" Aron heard Ronald from another room and felt vibrations on the floor. ''What did he do?'' It wasn''t easy to understand, trembling could make tunnels collapse. ''Does he want to fucking bury us alive?'' Some rocks started to fell, luckily mines had some support to prevent such event. ''I need to fucking get him¡­NOW!'' Aron started to rush at direction of Ronald''s voice. His enemy was sitting in a bizarre circle with runes, there was red stone inside of his hands. "Hahaha! ADMIRE THE MIGHT OF A DEITY! BOW BEFORE GOD!" Ronald lost his mind completely, and boy didn''t want to try help him recover it. BOOM! The gigantic creature came out of underground, its appearance reminded him of some hybrid between earthworm and snake. "GREAT DEITY! SPARE THIS BELIEVER!" Aron understood entire process, and this creature was after stone in Ronald''s hands. ''I need to get rid of them¡­'' The beast didn''t care about collapsing walls or potential death of Ronald. Aron wasn''t sure if he can even match this creature, it was big and outside of his league. ''How can I kill such creatures?'' Getting to close was risky, it could simply kill him with only its weight. ''I need to check if arrows penetrate it¡­'' He took out his bow, and it wasn''t easy to use it in such area. Fortunately, a creature was big and didn''t even pay attention to Aron''s existence. Its focus fell on Ronald and his sacrifice. Swish! Swish! Arrows hit body of a beast, and they couldn''t penetrate hard skin of the beast. ''FUCK! It has eye¡­'' There was small chance to hit small eye of the beast with arrow, and he needed to use his glaive.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "DEITY! KILL HERETIC!" Ronald tried to persuade summoned creature to kill Aron, still it was in some kind of daze. "NOW OR NEVER!" Aron rushed at it with his glaive. He was about to jump at it and attack its eye when Ronald stood up. "IT''S BLASPHEMY! I WILL KILL YOU TO SHOW MY RESPECT TO DEITY!" Ronald picked up his serpent staff and rushed at Aron. ''FUCK! I should kill him first.'' Their battle was inevitable, Aron wanted to get rid of the beast to stabilize the caves. Clang! Two weapons collided and Ronald got the upper hand in this exchange. Aron was pushed few steps back and vibrations went through his entire body. ''Awww. Going berserk will kill me. There won''t be anyone to take me from collapsing cave¡­'' This time, he couldn''t risk death. "I WON" T DIE TO SNAKE FUCKER!" Aron mustered all his strength in this hit. "HAHAHA! PUNY HERETIC! THAT''S ALL YOU GOT?" He sent Aron flying with hit of his staff, few seconds later Aron felt something was off. ''I feel odd.'' [Host got poisoned by serpent staff. It''s very strong poison, host will be in weakened state for few hours.] ''That''s ridiculous¡­'' His resistances allowed him to live after hit, problem was it didn''t neutralize the poison. ''What happens if I enter space while this cave collapses¡­'' It was obvious question, still he needed to ask. [Host won''t be able to leave space until someone clears this space.] ''FUCKING DANGEROUS¡­'' "Let''s deity feast on those heretics! WATCH IT! HAHA! Serpent god cannot be stopped! SERPENT GOD IS FORCE OF NATURE!" Ronald started to laugh maniacally and mock Aron. "You think this oversized bug is god? What''s next you will worship a cow dung?" Aron felt shame because of his weakness, still searching for way to slow plan of this mad man was priority. "I WANTED TO SHOW YOU GREATNESS OF GOD! BUT YOU FUCKING HERETIC DON''T APRECIATE IT! I WILL FINISH YOU OFF PERSONALLY!" Insult to his god filled him with fury and he jumped at Aron with his serpent staff. ''I NEED TO KILL HIM! I NEED TO BE STRONGER!'' His body was weakened and his berserk was slowly activating from his intense feelings. ''I CANNOT GO BERSERK! I NEED TO GET STRONGER! FUCKING STRONGER! I WON''T DIE FROM RELIGIOUS TRASH!'' His pride couldn''t allow for him to lose with someone without dignity like Ronald. Something was ignited in his body, and entire body was filled with energy. "YOU WILL DIE! EVERY FUCKING RELIGIOUS TRASH WILL DIE!" Limits in his body got broken and his strength soared temporarily. Ronald wasn''t prepared for Aron''s attack, and glaive pierced his side and he was forced to get back. "HOW! YOU HERETIC! GO DOWN AND WORSHIP TRUE GOD!" Pain in his side changed his mind, trying to recruit his enemy in desperation. "You will die! AND YOUR FAKE GOD WILL SHARE YOUR FATE!" Aron jumped at him and thrusted his glaive without hesitation. Clang! This time, Aron forced Ronald into retreat. His side was bleeding with high pressure, and his strength was leaving him. "DIE!" Aron jumped at him without fear, this time he decided to take a hit to stab his opponent. BANG! STAB! His body received a hit, still his glaive pierced a stomach of his enemy. "NO! DEITY! Heeeelp¡­.me¡­" He died and Aron focused on a beast as it slowly was coming back to its senses. ''I NEED TO KILL IT BEFORE IT WAKES UP!'' Aron jumped at the beast with his glaive piercing its eye, his body lost its strength and glaive was stuck. The beast was howling in agony, and green fluid was flowing out of its eye. ''What a vitality¡­'' The entire floor was covered in beast''s blood, and it started losing strength and collapsed on a floor. ''What the fuck! It''s still alive!'' It was losing enormous amounts of blood and panting heavily. Aron supported himself and decided to finish beast''s misery. He approached it and pushed his glaive further into beast''s brain. ''Finally, DEAD!'' The problem was his body had no strength left and he needed to leave this place with villagers. Aron inputted bodies of beasts and Ronald into space and approached the unconscious captives. ''What if I fucking finish this fucker off.'' His sight fell on Jeremy, and the blame will fell on dead cultists and collapse. Stab! He used serpent staff to kill Jeremy and started waking people from their sleep. "WAKE UP OTHERS AND RUN! THIS PLACE IS GOING TO COLLAPSE SOON!" He was waking and shouting to people that were already awake. It was simple method to rescue all people, in two minutes most of people were already leaving the tunnels. Aron was supported by two villagers as he was close to losing consciousness. [Quest Complete] 63 Annas ambitions. [Quest Complete] [Goal: Break limits of your body.] [Reward: +20% of bloodline purification.] [Hidden objective cleared.] [Goal: Kill the spiritual creature without berserk.] [Reward: Battle Instinct, + 20 K WE] ''I want¡­'' Breaking limit of his body made extreme strain on his body and he lost consciousness. A few hours later, village chief house. Aron is laying on one of the beds in guest''s room, and Anna is sitting next to him. His eyelids started to twitch and his eyes opened, unfamiliar surroundings caused him feeling of uneasiness. "Where am I?" There was risk of being caught by enemies, so he decided to ask question and observe Anna''s reaction.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "Calm down. You are in our house. Thank you¡­IF not you all of us would die." Anna wasn''t stupid, and she knew that those people didn''t care about their fate. They were taken only to be food for some evil beast. "You should thank your son. I wouldn''t come here if not his sudden action." Joe was one of his people, even if he was only slave. Simple assistance could bring him even more loyal people, and another thing was he hated religions and cults the most. Those snake freaks couldn''t be allowed to plant roots in near villages or problem would rise to another level. "What happened afterwards? I was exhausted after battle with this freak¡­" Aron literally didn''t know what they did when he passed out. "All saved by you carried you here. YOU ARE HERO! I feel ashamed, still many people blame you for collapse of mines. Entire income of a village was cut off for very long time¡­" It was really problematic issue, reclaiming the mines will take long time and they won''t make it before the winter. ''I saved those people¡­'' He predicted that those people would react this way. They limited sight and intelligence made them unreasonable. "I don''t care Anna. I didn''t save them for glory or fame. I did it for one of my people, Joe. You are his mother. If you weren''t there I wouldn''t even get there in time¡­" Aron didn''t want to play hero, and Anna was good woman and recruiting her was worth trying. "I need someone like you Anna. I control Clay Village and Amber Village. I want to start a new era! Era without fear of winter! Era without constant hunger! Era¡­ I think you understand my vision. I want you to control the Copperhead now. It''s the best time for you to do it¡­" His words awoke suppressed emotions, she always wanted to lead the village to greatness. The only problem was her gender, and she wasn''t a man and people couldn''t accept a woman as village chief. "You don''t understand! I am woman! They won''t let me be chief¡­" There were some tears in her eyes, and it was painful for her to talk about those matters. "Let me handle it. There is Joe. He will take position of the chiefs, and you will be his advisor. His brain and soul!" It was an ingenious idea to make Joe a puppet for her, she was smart and more capable for this position. "Are you out of your mind! This idea is¡­actually good." Joe was her son and she wanted the best for him, still he wasn''t suited to lead. "I want you to work for me. Do you wish to become one of my people? One of the progenitors of a new world?" His words reignited her ambition, however there was feeling of one-time opportunity. She felt that village wont'' survive a crisis without his assistance. "I will do anything. The village cannot survive with current lead¡­" Anna agreed to his offer, and Aron got notification. [Anna wishes to become your servant. Do you accept her?] ''Yes.'' There was change in expression of Anna, becoming a servant must be odd feeling. "What about Jeremy? He controls most of the village." Anna didn''t know about death of Jeremy, and boy didn''t want to reveal his deed to her yet. "Don''t worry about him. We will leave Copperhead for a time being. We will come back with solution for the crisis! Be assured, I won''t abaddon people with ability to think¡­" Aron explained the plan, and they will come back after village starts suffer from lack of money and give ultimatum to them. ''Be with me or die!'' Short minded people didn''t deserve get more chances because of their inability to reason correctly. "You are quite brutal¡­Those people are not¡­" She wanted to argue about her village, but Aron interrupted her and said. "You are wrong. What I do is not evil or injustice. Those people will lead village to its fall sooner or later. Giving them a chance is already show of good will. If I was a man of justice! I would fucking took my weapon and took back lives from those ungrateful people. Another thing is law of strength! I could go and take this village with only myself. Killing all greedy pigs out there! I warn you if you doubt me once more. You will lose all credibility and I will search for other people for your position. I don''t care about your sentiments¡­ Being emotional will make you weak leader. I don''t need weak leader. I need strong and reliable subordinate¡­" Anna felt ashamed of her own words, even her father repeated sentence that leaders don''t lead with hearts but their minds. "Pack your stuff. We are leaving tomorrow." White-haired planned to purify his bloodline before going back to Amber Village. Knock! Knock! There was someone pounding into doors. "Anna! Jeremy''s relatives came! They are demanding explanation! Jeremy didn''t come back¡­" Most of the lost people came back, yet Jeremy didn''t return. In case of other lost for good, other kidnapees saw death bodies. Aron got rid of Jeremy''s body, so none was able to see his corpse in cave. "It''s YOU! WHERE IS JEREMY! YOU HAD CONFLICT WITH HIM! YOU PLANNED IT TOGETHER!" They barged into room, while screaming. "Ohh. You are family of this deranged moron. His actions proved his mental disability¡­ I think he escaped to the city¡­ I doubt his ability to be able to get real job¡­ His face wasn''t bad, maybe some fetishist will want his services." Aron didn''t care about those people opinions, his body was almost recovered and ordinary people weren''t challenge for him. "YOU! I WON''T LET THIS MATTER SLIDE!" It was pretty funny for Aron, ambushing hero of many people for the personal grudge. His enemies shared one common thing, they didn''t end well. "I want to see. Anna! Inform the village about connections of Jeremy and his family to Blackwind Bandits!" They didn''t predict this to get out, still they believed that he has no proofs. "WAKE UP, KID! You think they will belive you! OUTSIDER?" This wasn''t simple matter, and villagers wouldn''t'' believe his words as outsider. "Hahaaha! First, I am no longer outsider! I am savior of many! The second, Filip will be perfect witness! Don''t you think?" The fear and regret appeared on their faces; many villagers carried a grudge against the Blackwind Bandits. "Don''t do it! We apologize! We don''t know what got into us. You need to understand¡­ Jeremy is lost¡­" They tried to find excuse for their rude behavior, and they understood that going against him was mistake. Collapsed mines won''t be cleared soon, and fighting hero will make them lose influence. "I hope it won''t repeat itself. Filip really wants to visit a village and talk about his origins!" There was no reason to hold back, so he scared them a little before allowing them to leave. 64 Bloodline purification! Any of his bloodlines could be purified by the system still, he had the possibility to prepare for it to utilize this reward to its maximum. [White Blood Clan(13%)] His target was Shiran''s bloodline, and humans were weaker than shirans. There were corpses of the gigantic serpent and leader of acolytes. [Giant demonic snakeworm.] [Traits: Two hearts, Poisonous Blood, Poison¡­] [Skills: Excavate, Solidify¡­] ''Solidify?'' It was interesting skill, Aron wanted to know how it works. [The beast excretes solidifying liquid behind itself to create a tunnel.]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Those creatures sometimes travel in pairs, so one of them is excavating and stabilizing the tunnel for its partner.] ''Aron decided to add trait two hearts to his body. The heart was the core of the body, so having two will make him stronger.'' His first heart started to intensely throb, it was extremely uncomfortable. His blood started to flow faster and faster, his veins started to pop up on his entire body. Suddenly, he felt pain in his chest. The second heart started growing next to his first one. ''BOLLOCKS! It''s painful.'' His blood pressure was increased to dangerous levels, luckily his body was mutated. [Host should use this opportunity to purify bloodline. It will be twice as effective.] ''How much for the corpse of this monster¡­ARGHH!'' It was hard to think, his body started to tremble. [500 K WE] ''Sell..it'' There was a risk that his body won''t be able to handle this blood pressure anymore. ''Purify..White¡­blood!'' The stronger bloodline will improve his body in bigger extent. [Puryfing the bloodline¡­] [14%...15%...17%..20%] [21%...22%...25%...30%] His veins started to turn into white color as his blood was purified, the pain started to fade. [Do you wish to continue to purify the bloodline?] ''YES!'' It was like blood purification sale, Black Friday for clan''s number one trashes. [There is no world energy to use. Using reward from quest.] [31%...36%...50%] The pain disappeared and he felt immeasurable power flowing into his body. His bloodline awakened, his eyes became white and his body started to grow. [First awaking achieved.] ''I feel great! Haha!'' The feel of power was addicting, however there was something off about this situation. [Bloodline reached beyond 50%. Do you wish to remove second bloodline or mutate your race?] ''Yyyy? Why?'' This was something unpredictable, and he planned to get more bloodlines in future. [To host genetic code is defective.] [Host can choose one of two solutions in this moment.] [1. Focus on one race and correct genetic code into its direction.] [2. Fuse both races in attempt to create perfect hybrid race.] ''Riiisks?'' There was risk attached to everything in this world. [Firs option is safe. Host will experience complete race change with all positive and negative traits of the race infused into host.] [Second option is pretty hard to predict.] [There is a chance of fusing both races into the unknown powerful race.] [There is a chance of failure and getting weaker race from both of races.] ''I need my both bloodlines¡­'' Aron chose the second option. The profits were mostly accompanied by risks, and it was similar to this time. [..] The process started and his body temperature raised to another level. There was no real pain in his body, and it was opposite. This feeling of comfort made him fell asleep. A few hours later, he was laying on the floor in a pool of mix of blood, sweat and black liquid. ''What is this smell?'' The stench could be smelled from long distance. [Evolution complete.] [The process was a success. Host''s race is a combination of both races with addition mix of plundered traits.] [Host genes got the ability to constantly evolve.] ''It means¡­There is no danger in getting more bloodlines. I can basically evolve with every bloodline, and I get!'' Possibility of constant evolution was a great opportunity, there was no risk of dying because of too many bloodlines. [Do you wish to name your race?] The name for his future race was quite important for some odd reason. ''Let''s call it Ascended for the time being.'' A race that ascended from two weaker races, pretty simple name. [Continuing awakening process.] [Warrior profession unlocked and activated.] [Double heart and mutated heart fused into double mutated heart] [Double mutated heart evolved into Double Warrior''s heart] [Generated Talent Martial Arts(Low ¨C Spiritual)] [Generated Talent All Weapons (Low ¨C Spiritual)] Both of his hearts were throbbing like bells, this was the pretty odd case. Two hearts working together granted him many godly endurance and many other advantages. Ordinary humans cannot handle having two hearts, increased blood pressure could cause a stroke. [Warrior''s Dignity generated.] [Berserk changed into White fury.] [White Blood (58% - 1 Awakening)] ''I need to clean myself. I smell like a shit¡­'' Some impurities were forced out of his body. There was none in vicinity, so Aron entered the space to clean himself. ''I am not hungry?'' From the moment, he reached the first stage of the gluttonous physique his body felt a desire to devour. This feeling disappeared and Aron felt strange. [Many traits and skills were infused into the host''s race.] [The negative trait was suppressed by evolution.] ''What about higher stages of this skill?'' The first stage was lowest, but hunger wasn''t intense like hunger from higher stages. [The higher stages will require fulfilling certain condition to suppress hunger.] ''It''s okay. I should stop cultivating it for the time being.'' There was no need to use this defective method, and his body will be improved by new combat professions. He left space and decided to go search for Anna. There was nothing to do in this village for the time being. The mines are unusable, and he didn''t want to help them yet. ''How fast your situation can reverse, they were the richest village and they traded with others for tools¡­Now, they have some leftovers and no ability to secure food for winter.'' Other villages won''t give them anything on credit, the news of the collapse of mines will spread faster than wind. People will gossip and all villages will be aware of the crisis in Copperhead Village. They will know about his heroic deeds too, and it was a side-effect of this kind of communication. There was a high chance that people will change this story to color it and make it better to listen. ''I hope they won''t turn me into dragon-slaying knight on white horse¡­'' Aron''s body grew in size and his posture become closer to the adult male. Growing a few centimeters during the night was easy to explain, but he grew around a third of the meter. The second issue was his appearance, his bloodline made him more handsome and his body became refined. ''I really want to test my new capabilities¡­Maybe, later¡­'' There were many village girls ready for a one-night stand. [Shirans in your age can be considered adults.] [Their environment is extremely dangerous.] [Despite of longer lifespan, there are many cases of early deaths.] [Many shirans choose partners early to leave offspring before dying on a battlefield.] 65 Going back to Amber Village. Anna was sitting outside of the house observing the village, there was something that was troubling her. "I decided to follow you and your ideals¡­yet I this village is close to my heart. I feel bad when you want to let it suffer¡­" She started a conversation and slowly turned at Aron. "You¡­What happened to you?" Anna saw Aron''s change; it was subtle like previously. "This is something¡­I cannot speak about. Don''t doubt me. You made your choice! I am fair¡­ Those people will receive their chance in the future. They can decide their fate. I can make the village flourish and I can destroy it." Aron couldn''t help them for pretty smile, and he needed strength and money. The weak Samaritan won''t secure future for him and his followers. "Ok. We need to depart soon. Do you know how to ride a horse?" There was a possibility of carrying her on his back entire way, still it wouldn''t be comfortable for both of them. "No¡­ Horses are rare in poor settlements. We had few in village. It was years ago and I didn''t have a chance to ride one." Horses stolen from bandits were waiting for their first task, so he decided to slowly implement them in his journeys. "Wait here for a moment." Aron rushed into another direction to summon horses outside of her sight. A few moments later, he came back with pair of horses. ''I had few horses in my previous life. Riding isn''t so hard¡­I will try to teach her.'' The previous life allowed him to experience many things, and his company was controlling many industries with success. His wealth was gigantic and he could literally buy anything he wanted. [Skill Horsemanship generated] Aron displayed her how to mount, ride and control horse. They spent some time and finally Anna could ride horse without his assistance. Anna had some necessities packed in bag, so Aron threw put it on his horse. "Let''s go!" They couldn''t travel at maximum speed because of her, so it was peaceful and slow journey. "What about you and Ian?" Aron decided to ask about simple matter, he knew that Ian still feel something for her. The question was simple. Does she still have some feelings for her lover from the past? "It''s matter of the past¡­I have child now¡­and I am widow¡­" She started to use excuses to change topic, still Aron knew their secrets.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "You have child with Ian and you buried your fake husband¡­." She didn''t expect him to know such things about them. "Don''t lie¡­ Tell me if you feel something to that moronic blacksmith." Aron wanted to check if there will be any problems in future. They were important subordinates and if they started argue about every matter because of their unresolved feelings, he would be forced to make some steps to prevent this situation. "I¡­still love him¡­ but I am currently widow and he¡­has a wife¡­" Tears appeared inside of her eyes, he reminded her about her deepest sorrow. "Why don''t you fight for your love? Are you afraid of villagers? Let me know if anyone bothers you. I will take care of it. You are one of my people! I won''t allow anyone to bully you!" In his previous life, he used nano technology to control most of his subordinates. This time, he wanted to try to build the stable master-servant relationship between him and his subordinates. ''I might control them a little, but I will give them some personal freedom.'' He spotted some hypocrisy in his own plan, still there was no other way. Trust and control, it was best way to create healthy organization. They finally reached the Amber Village, and his fame was faster than him. People already knew about his deeds and many watched him with respect. "You will live in my mansion. We will talk about your job later." There were many things, and he wanted to do right now. His papermill was working for long time, so there should be big amount of paper accumulated. Clay Village was producing bricks and he wanted to check their quality. ''I was thinking about some entertainment¡­'' Creating something to relieve stress of stupid villagers was pretty easy but hard at the same time. His first choice was simple board games like chess or Ludo. ''I will prepare those things later¡­'' There were many things to do and stress reliever was thing of lesser priority. The paper mill efficiency was great, it produced enough paper for many books. First priority was elementary knowledge like math, chemistry and physics. Aron decided to work on couple books about breeding animals, taming, and archery. His knowledge in those fields was good enough to guide people. ''I forgot essential part¡­ Most of people cannot read¡­'' Reading in middle ages was rare skill, simple farmers didn''t have a need to learn such thing. ''I need to teach those people¡­at least reading and writing¡­'' Writing books would be pointless if there was none to read them. His decision was simple, use Anna to create class to teach people reading and writing. Aron promised 1 bag of wheat for every person that decides to start learning those essential skills. People who manage learn the skill will receive additional rewards. ''I will have bricks¡­I need to create cement.'' He had all necessary ingredients for this substance, buildings made of concrete and bricks were way better than simple wooden shacks. Cement is pulverized limestone, oysters, freshwater mussels or seashells that has been heated to high heat to remove CO2. Concrete is a mixture of cement, water, sand and gravel. Mortar is a mixture of cement, water, sand and lime. The couple of able men got to grind limestone into powder, it will heated up later into cement. He lacked oysters and mussels, still it wasn''t so necessary for simple cement. ''I need to go to city. There are many things that cannot be found around villages.'' His wealth was pointless if it couldn''t be monetized or exchanged into new things. His next target will be conquering Red maple Village, and finishing matters in Copperhead Village. He needed to train his professions to become even stronger. ''I think Carl and Anna can cooperate on teaching new generations.'' It was definitely easier to teach kids than adults, and the reason was simple. Children have bigger learning capacity, but they don''t have prejudices against the world. Adults have baggage of experience, and they belittle any literacy as it''s not necessary for survival. 66 Education plan. Aron decided to talk with Anna about his education project, she and Carl will be main teachers of this school. "Hey, Anna. Do you like this village?" It was simple curiosity, and Copperhead Village was richer and their village was built in better style. "I can say¡­Many houses in this village are in a terrible state. I am curious about those big wooden buildings¡­. OH, they call them paper mills. I saw many odd-looking tools¡­simple, but incredible." Anna was shocked by things created by him. "I created all of those things. I will show you more interesting things if you follow me in the future." Aron thought about modern world technology and her reaction to real cutting-edge gear. "You did... Great fighter and genius inventor¡­Who are you?" She was shocked by how multitalented Aron was at such age. "Ok. Stop with all those compliments¡­I have a task for you. I can create things beyond your imagination. The only problem is the lack of materials and¡­ people¡­ I cannot change the world without changing people¡­ State of minds of those villagers is terrible¡­I need to educate them¡­ train them¡­ and change their short-sighted way of living. I don''t want to give them food, but teach them ways of getting it on their own hands." The civilization couldn''t be built on the shoulders of one person because it would collapse after the creator''s death. Education was crucial for their future and he believed that they would advance technology by themselves. He only needed to awake their creativity and cultivate couple talents. "You are insane¡­. However, I understand your vision! It''s hard to accomplish¡­ What do you want me to do?" His vision couldn''t be done in days or even years, it was long term plan for more than decade. "It''s simple. You and Carl will teach villagers reading and writing. Leave rest to me!" They parted ways and he decided to visit Carl''s house. "You are back¡­" Carl knew that his presence meant something troublesome for him, and he tried to educate villagers with all things he passed to him. The problem was many preferred to follow old ways, and they were resistant to change. Aron explained school idea to Carl and consulted him about position of this building. "I have a request¡­" Old man was troubled about some matter, Aron decided to listen him.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "I am listening." It was actually interesting. "I will spend one more year following every order and you will let me go¡­" Old man wanted to leave a village for good and being part of Aron''s plans was conflicting with his destination. "You want to leave? You are old and¡­" Aron was interrupted by Carl''s words. "I outlived my entire family. I want to visit graves of my family before my last breath." Carl won''t live for many years; Aron could change this with medicine. This time, Aron decided to respect old''s man decision and let him go in right moment. "Death is part of cycle of life. I understand¡­ Just inform me¡­when." Carl wasn''t prepared for such answer, however he felt relieved and happy. "Don''t worry, kid! I won''t kick bucket soon¡­" They joked and talked about school project, and he got two teachers and he needed to build workplace for them. ''I am stronger now. I should train archery and glaives. I got incomplete breathing technique of those snake bastards.'' The exercise won''t improve his body much, his flexibility and strength were beyond first body limit. He felt that these religious fanatics will create troubles for him later, still he couldn''t search for them. ''I am simply too inexperienced. I won because of this glaive¡­ Next time, I can encounter someone more skilled in weapons and die.'' Aron overestimated his strength twice in this life, he felt that third time might cost him life. The time was on his side, so training was his priority. ''I got this breathing exercise¡­ I basically could ignore it, but I could master it to pass it to some of my subordinates.'' Cultivating some of his subordinates to level of first body limit was heaven sent opportunity, he decided to train some absolutely loyal subordinates and pass the exercise to them. ''If I get a full version¡­I might be able to create an army of super soldiers.'' Martial artists and mages were rare, so having army built from best could allow him to destroy countries. ''Bloodlines and those damned clans might stand on my way.'' He was part of one of the strongest clans in this kingdom, and he was sure that they wouldn''t let him realize his plans. The solution was to stay low until getting necessary strength and resources. ''Bandit''s extermination. Conflict with some bloodthirsty cult. I am basically searching for trouble¡­'' Both of those forces will come back for revenge. His every action will bring some effect on world, he was aware of consequences from the very beginning. There were more important matters than worrying about distant matters. His training was priority, and new strength could protect him from stronger enemies. ''Rogue, archer, warrior and¡­ mage?'' His professions reminded him of basic game classes, and he wasn''t into games in his previous life and now he is living game character. White-haired boy decided to concentrate on his training, his subordinates got their assignments and some villagers started to transport bricks with assistance of horse drawn carriage built by him. Training archery became easier after awakening, and it was simple talent in all weapons. Shirans were extremely strong race, ability to learn and master any weapon was great advantage. Their only shortcoming was anger issues, and Aron knew that many of Shirans were berserks because of their ability to utilize their wrath. ''I don''t want to lose my calm. Shirans might be strong¡­but they are extremely stupid.'' Waging war against stronger enemy wasn''t smart and they did it out of impulse. Their stupid decision almost caused race extermination and sent many of them into slavery. ''Saving race from slavery? I am not some kind of shitty messiah, but I don''t want to be last shiran.'' He decided to help them if opportunity arrives. They were strong and he could utilize their strength. The anger issues might be resolved by him in the future. 67 New function of workshop area. Two weeks passed and school was half ready. Villagers were shocked by concrete and its properties. His mastery over the sword, bow, spear and finally glaive started to increase significantly. [Workshop area level up] [Time acceleration: 20 times] [New function unlocked.] [Simulation is now avaible for host.] ''Simulation? How does it work?'' There was a couple of things that could be called simulation in his previous world. [Simulation allows host to train in virtual world. There are three modes.] [The first mode is shadow training. It''s training with clone of yourself with exactly the same powers as host.] [The second mode is scenario training. The host can recall any scene from memories to experience simulated version of those events.] [The third mode is free mode. It can combine previous two modes or simply generate simple terrain for host to relax.] ''Interesting. Can I use it with my mufti threads from multitasking?'' It could be utilized to it''s maximum potential with four threads training different skills. [It''s currently limited to two separate simulation running at the same time.] ''What if all of my threads were connected to one simulation.'' If this method worked, the system is little too easy to cheat. [It''s possible.] ''Fuck yeah!'' All he needed now is creating free simulation with place to train for many different threads of his mind. ''Multitasking skill is too powerful. I have four threads of my mind. System is working hard to make me overpowered.'' Doing two things at the same time was great advantage, but four or more was basically cheating. ''I should work on metal refining. I need iron and steel.'' The ironware wasn''t hard to create, and he already had iron ore in his storage. His target was steel as it was great metal for many purposes, industrialization would be hard without strong base metal. His motivation system persuaded some parents in village to send their children to study. The school wasn''t ready, but Aron ensured two bigger rooms from his mansion for this purpose. ''Autumn is coming. I need to finish part of my projects faster.'' The best time for city adventure was early autumn because of harsh winter. His body could withstand the harsh environment, however transporting his good could be problematic. Attracting unnecessary attention wasn''t good idea, and his appearance was already problematic. ''I belong to race that lost the war. Another thing is ¡­'' His charisma could charm any woman with weaker mind, and no husband would like his woman to desire another man. ''I need to work on some kind of disguise.'' His hair was white as snow, it could be dyed but his face and rest were still too eye-catching. ''I will think about such things before my journey.'' Ability to train in simulation was too tempting for him, improving his strength was his obsession. Aron chose the scenario mode and decided to replay battle from bandit''s camp. His strength improved, still notification appeared. [Do you wish to suppress your strength to state from memories?] ''No¡­Wait a minute! Yes.'' His strength could easily overwhelm bandits, and it wasn''t his goal. Training skill required feeling of danger and those battles were great for this thing. Another thing was decision making, and he could learn on his previous mistakes. He appeared in his camp before the raid on bandits, and it was time to rush and steal the horses. ''Did I make any mistake? I stole their horses and killed the stableman.'' This part of raid was great, most problematic was battle with Robert. It was actually solving one of his shortcomings; he could get battle experience and improve his professions. ''Everything is going in right direction. I lack world energy¡­ I could purify my bloodline even further¡­'' His physique allowed him to get as much bloodline he wanted, his only problem was lack of system''s currency. [Host generates huge amounts of worlds energy. Most of the creatures don''t have opportunity to purify their bloodline for their entire lives.] ''I am not the most of the creatures.'' His existence was special and he started to think about ways of getting more world energy. ''I could work with villagers. They can gather wood, dirt or anything. I could input it into system and get more energy¡­'' This way was pretty bad for surroundings, and villagers would create large pits and forest will turn into plains. ''Let''s focus on training professions. I will find a way to get more world''s energy.'' This kind of short time profit would turn into future issues. This land will become his domain, and destroying it will be making his life harder in future. His routine was interrupted by visiting of Ian, his expression revealed that he is in deep trouble. "Kid! Open up! It''s all your fault!" Aron immediately understood his issue, and Anna visited him and talked with his wife. "Sarah is going to fucking kill me! She knows about Joe real identity now¡­" The result of Anna''s visit was simple, Sarah became living volcano and Ian was at fault. "Cannot you make a choice? Wait a minute. You love both of them? Don''t you? Haha! You are player! Good luck with persuading them into a love triangle!" Ian had inner conflict as he loved both of women and choosing one of them was basically impossible. "I hate you, kid! But¡­ Thank you for saving, Anna''s life." Ian was grateful to him from the depth of his heart, dealing with love triangle wasn''t on level of losing one of his loved ones. "You reap what you sow! Go! Or you are searching for work? You can create more glassware if you are bored!" Ian left without word, Aron was sure about his destination. Ian wasn''t going back to his house, he went to his forge to clear his head through working. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. ''It''s little messed up...I wonder if they enter a triangle. Let them solve their problems. It shouldn''t get bloody¡­'' Aron imagined Ian''s wife with a hammer from a forge and Anna with axe fighting with each other. It was hilarious idea, however it put a smile on his face. ''Stress relievers, huh?'' His idea fell to building a recreation center with bar and small stage for music performance. ''I need to recreate some instruments and teach someone to use them¡­'' There were instruments like lute or drums, he didn''t have any of those. Building a guitar or piano was interesting idea, and he tried to learn to play a piano before without results. It could be considered as his personal failure, and system could change this fact and make him the real pianist. ''It will be my side project. First, I need to advance at least two combat professions.'' The simple goal was to advance Archer and Rogue. Those professions were little related to each other as they focused on dexterity. 68 Oil Press. The village didn''t lack food or warm clothes thanks to three hunters and his linen. Aron started slowly drew blueprints for instruments and interesting tools from the modern world. ''I instructed people to take care of their hygiene¡­ water doesn''t kill bacteria on their hands¡­'' He needed to recreate a soap. ''Soap¡­'' The simplest soap was a combination of lye and oil with possible additions. Aron cooked with usage of lard from animals, he didn''t want use entire oil on this because animals'' growth was slower than plant''s growth. There were many plants with possibility of oil extraction, so he decided to build oil press. Aron needed to build blast furnace to process iron into steel, he decided to postpone it to late autumn. Oil press could be built with simple iron or copper, and he could simply smelt it and built a better version later in future. ''Oil press¡­making a lye¡­i won''t achieve hard soap right now¡­''His current capabilities could create lye solution with of potassium hydroxide lye, for hard soaps sodium hydroxide lye was better. ''I need electricity. First things¡­are first. Let''s go with liquid soap and slowly build a blast furnace.'' Aron couldn''t build those things in a middle of nowhere. Steel will be his trump card and letting someone stole would be at least stupid. ''I am weak. When you are barely protecting your own life¡­you cannot protect your wealth and dignity.'' It was simple line of thought, this world had things beyond his comprehension. There are many monsters and superintelligent creatures. Martial artists or mages, he couldn''t hold a candle for any of them yet. His oil press was simple meat mincer, he added some holes to let oil drip into a collector with a filter. The use was simple, so he could introduce this work for few villagers. It took him some time to put this tool together in fully functioning machine, he took out the flax seeds and started extraction process. Flaxseed oil will be great for soap making, and some simple cooking uses. The trail was successful, so he decided to a built couple of those in workshop area. He decides to use one of the rooms in his mansion for this process, and ordered another construction inside of a village. ''There is more ''factories'' in this village. I don''t need to care about this anyway. This area will be rebuilt in future¡­'' The four villages needed to fuse into one city, many buildings needed to be upgraded to brick or stone. The change will be slow and he couldn''t leave settlers without roof above their heads. The next thing was lye making, and it was pretty simple thing. He needed a big wooden barrel filled with three layers. First two layers were created from stones and straw, while the rest of the container was filled with ashes from hard wood. The entire process will need holes on a bottom to let lye water come out and fell into glass container. The potassium hydroxide is caustic and corrosive, so he needed to be careful. The final ingredient was rain water, ashes needed to be wet. He needed to test personally how much water was needed for this process to instruct people later. Another thing, he needed was distilled water. The distillation will be good for his another project, he wanted to recreate some of the alcohols from Earth. The process of making of liquid soap wasn''t hard after getting all ingredients. The first step was to boil oil for four hours with high heat. His second step was to add lye mixed in distilled water, stirring it up to fuse it into mixture. The heat needed to be suppressed to low and boil like this for another six hours. The mixture will become clear and its consistency will be similar to thick honey. It was time to pour more distilled water to dissolve the mixture. The last step is pouring dissolved mixture into water jugs and letting it age for four weeks. The right recipe needed experimentation as every oil reacted differently with lye. He created few trial mixtures and left them in workshop area. Few hours outside will be days inside of space, so he could find the right recipe in no time. His archer profession reached maximum level and he got 3 possible paths to advance. The first option was becoming Great Archer, it was more advanced version of an archer without many interesting features. Second option was Long Bow Archer, it could be considered as specialization for long distance shooting. It was like a modern-day sniper among the medium range archers, and Aron didn''t need to shoot further than 100 meters. Third and most tempting option was Ranger, it was like spec ops of archer division. Mobile killing with skill to fight in close quarters and rotate on a battlefield if needed. Fast and accurate, it was perfect advancement for Aron. He was fighting on both close and long distance. [Great Archer] [Boost: +0.5 STR, +0.5 DEX, +0.5 END, +0.5 PER]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. [Level Cap: 20] [Long Bow Archer] [Boost: +0.7 STR, +0.4 DEX, +0.7 END , +1 PER] [Level Cap: 20] [Ranger] [Boost: +0.6 STR, +0.6 END, +0.6 DEX, +0.6 PER] [Level Cap: 25] ''Let''s go with ranger! It has techniques made for me.'' His fighting needed to be adaptive and a ranger was best solution. His target was to gain proficiency in multiple professions at the same time. [Skill Ranger''s footwork generated] [Skill Adaptive Fighting] [Adaptive Fighting] [Desc: User adapts to a current environment. For example if he cannot change a weapon, he uses a current weapon in melee combat.] This skill was pretty useful in case of inability to summon other weapon, and he could fight with bow as weapon or anything in surroundings. It sounded simple, but using things and using them proficiently was two different things. ''I got Battle instinct from a quest.'' It was one of greatest things, and he got from quest. Having good battle instinct made his battle way easier, it was a subconscious booster of his accuracy and decision making. ''If I met Robert now. He would be dead meat in seconds.'' His overall strength increased and what''s more important his skill with weapons was getting better every day. Aron was using a random weapon during their battle, and he wasn''t proficient with it. The battle would go differently if he was skilled in any of used weapons. Battles in simulations allowed him to see all his shortcomings, and the most interesting battles were actually with himself. The easiest way to spot flaw in your fighting style was to fight someone with exact the same style. Aron left space and sat on chair in deep thoughts, and he needed to visit city soon. Anything he will get in city will later become his own product with space powers. BANG! BANG! Someone was pounding at his doors with great strength. Aron opened door and saw Rirak with worried expression. Rirak was a strong warrior, so a problem was serious as he came to Aron. 69 Wolves Rirak didn''t waste any time and started to explain a situation. "Do you remember the border you showed me?" The border between safe zone of the forest and hunting grounds of wolves. "Yes. What happened? Did you hunt there?" Aron didn''t like idea of fighting monsters at the moment. "I didn''t hunt on their grounds. The problem is wolves started to expand their hunting zone."The issue was more complicated than he thought. He or Rirak could actually face such creatures, however Casper or new hunters would have no chance. ''Why? FUCK! I am so stupid. It''s simple¡­ We fucked an ecosystem¡­ The game is limited, and we hunted pretty decent number of deers and boars¡­'' The pack of wolves required a lot of food to survive, and Aron forced them to search for food. ''It''s them or me¡­ It''s my fault, however it won''t be first victim of my expansion.'' Human expansion didn''t spare other animals. Many forests got cut down for new settlements, their inhabitants were forced out or killed. ''Time to hunt.'' The problem could escalate to higher level, white-haired boy couldn''t allow this situation to happen. "Go and warn people to not go to forest. We need to take care of this pack." Rirak understood the seriousness of a situation and rushed to warn people. Wolf pack won''t hesitate to attack humans, single human is easy target. Others will hold them down in battle, so it was the best if they stayed inside of a village. He doubted that animals would invade a village soon, however leaving couple of hunters might buy him to rush back. ''If I remember correctly¡­ I am close to level of a wolf from a trip with Roger.'' His capabilities and experience increased, adding the battle instinct and powerful weapon. The only issue was miscalculating strength of wolf beast, if it wasn''t using at least half of its possible strength and speed. Battle will be extremely hard for him. Rirak came back with extreme speed while signaling to rush. "No time to talk! Casper is in the forest!" It was worst possible scenario, if it was any other hunter consequences wouldn''t be so dire. The death of Casper might cause emotional collapse of Rose, and they needed to save no matter the cost. Aron started to track Casper and few minutes later, they were already in forest. "Blood!" It wasn''t good sign for their rescue mission, and he hoped that they weren''t going to collect remaining of his body. The stains on ground became more frequent, Casper didn''t have much time left. The moment his consciousness is lost, it''s the same moment he is dead. Aron''s senses picked something bizarre, it was heavy panting few hundred meters away. There was sound of barking and scratching. "This way!" Aron started to run with inhuman speed in direction of sound, Casper is in dangerous position. Casper was inside of small caving, luckily for him entrance collapsed. Wolves tried to dig their way inside, with their paws. Swish! Swish! Animals were close to getting inside, and Aron couldn''t give them opportunity to finish Casper. His arrows hit the digging animals, and they started to howl from pain. Those shots weren''t precise, his goal was to take attention of a wounded hunter. Awooooo! In surprise wolves didn''t attack him immediately, but they called for reinforcements. "We need to be fast. He won''t survive long¡­"Both of them knew what to do, and Aron took out his glaive to take those down in fastest possible way. Casper needed immediate treatment, and his chances of survival lowered every second. They were fast and accurate as every blow took down one of the wolves. All of the wolves were down, and another issue arose. ROAR! This particular roar belonged to very same beast, they encountered with Roger. It was demon wolf, and boy made fast decision. "I will take care of a beast. You save him¡­" Aron wasn''t sure if Rirak was able to take down the beast, and there was one thing certain in this situation. He will be able to stabilize Casper for time being, and the only variable is time of his battle. The demon wolf couldn''t reach their position, so Aron shouted and ran in direction of the roar. "COME AT ME LITTLE DOG!" It didn''t matter if beast understood his words or not. The canine creatures have better hearing than others, so any shout will irritate it. Roar! It smelled the blood of its kin, and it became enraged. The white-haired boy felt it won''t be easy to deal. ''It''s going to berserk¡­ FUCK!'' Beasts will lose any reasoning; it was opportunity and issue at the same time. ''It will attack without any fear. Its favorite target is head¡­ In cases like this, it will aim for head for sure.'' Aron decided to take a defensive stance and meet beast head on. It was faster and stronger than him, still he was way more intelligent. [Black Eyed Demon Wolf] [State: Berserk] [STR 20, DEX 32, END 31¡­] The beast rushed at him with full speed, he had one chance to win. Use monster''s habits to inflict serious damage, glaive will take care of the rest. It jumped with intention to rip off his head, and Aron was prepared moved his glaive into position to let a beast become shashlik. Wolf couldn''t avoid getting pierced by glaive, still it didn''t care. It used its fangs to scratch Aron''s arm. "FUCK YOU! You want my arm? DEAD DOG? COME AND GET IT!" The solution was simple, retract the weapon and run away. It will bleed out and die by itself. ''It''s good its left arm¡­'' The arm will need some time to heal, and thrust power would weaken if he used only one arm.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''Fuck it. Let''s enter workshop space.'' Aron entered space and immediately started to clean a wound with distilled water. His idea was simple, wolf wound was at its abdomen. It will bleed out in short time, and a white-haired boy couldn''t let it go. His idea was to get out in two minutes, so a beast will run in random direction but won''t search for Rirak or go to a village. Aron left space and hastily examined his surrounding, beast wasn''t anywhere nearby. There was blood train in west direction, so it is searching for him. He focused on unusual sounds in that direction. The hundred meters from his position, something was rapidly running and breaking branches. "I AM HERE! COME AT ME, DOG!" His voice was loud and beast turned at his direction, however something odd happened. ROAR! Wolf stopped its rage and roared for help. Its sound was weaker than before, and it didn''t have long to live. ROAAAAAAR! ''FUCK! It called for a husband!'' Aron understood his situation became dire, male wolves are usually larger than their female counter parts. Aron intelligence screamed him to run, however his blood started to boil for thrilling battle. 70 Wolves 2 ''Something inside of me, wants to fight this beast!'' The battle could be risky, still desire was getting stronger with every second. ''I can always hide inside of space.'' This thinking was little na?ve, still entering space didn''t take much time and calculating properly timings could allow him to improve his fighting capability. The wolf didn''t rush at him, but to his companion. The wounded beast was laying on a ground with hard breath. The fate of the beast was set in stone, male wolf licked head of its dying comrade. [Plundered: Black Demonic Eyes, Predator''s Aura, Call for help¡­] HOWL! It was mourning with loud howls. The wolf''s pack was like family, so every death was depressing for a group. ''My blood is boiling for this battle. It''s stupid! I don''t have advantage over this beast!'' His intelligence started doubting his own sanity. Repeating the same mistake over and over again, result won''t change and his luck might run out. ''System?'' His past self didn''t fight almost unwinnable battles, and difference must be in his new body. [Host''s bloodline increases thirst for battle.] ''Bloodline is turning me into warmonger? I need to suppress this feeling!'' Solving every problem through battle wasn''t smart. His future will be filled with battles, still losing his sanity and reasoning to fulfill odd bloodline need was stupid. [Host can stabilize his mind with fighting or find other method.] [It''s possible to get rid of bloodline. The side effects will be terrible.] ''No! I won''t remove bloodline. I will find solution for it.'' The vision of losing most of his strength was grim, there were many solutions for his bloodthirst and anger issues. The wolf started to run into his direction, Aron focused his entire will to retreat. Battle with the stronger opponent was pointless, one of his arms was injured. ''I am slower than a beast. I have few seconds of advantage.'' Aron started to run into direction of village, it was risky. Rirak could assist him, and they could take beast down together. It was battle with time; beast could attack a village in its rage. There was possibility of entering space to hide, however beast would certainly search for humans. Its hatred to human kind was on its peak, and Aron couldn''t let it run free. It was few hundred meters behind him, beast''s rage caused running through obstacles instead of avoiding them. Destroying everything on its way made decreased its speed and allowed Aron to keep distance between them. "Aron! This way!" The white-haired boy heard voice of Rirak, and he immediately followed into its direction. The number of trees was decreasing so alpha wolf started to gain his speed back. Aron on other hand was running at stable speed entire road. Rirak was standing with a bronze sword unsheathed, Aron immediately spotted the abnormal thing. They prepared trap for beast, and it was giant pit fall. His role was to lure the beast into trap. The beast was in enraged state, so his job won''t be hard. ''I will stay before trap until it pounce on me. I will enter the space last second.'' His perception was high enough to be able to wait until last second. Roar! Wolf didn''t care much about Rirak''s existence and rushed at Aron. There were some red stains on its body from damage from destroyed trees and rocks. It pounced at him with open jaw. Every second in this state was like ages, stress and terrifying existence made his senses even sharper. ''Now!'' The alpha was meter before him, Aron disappeared like he wasn''t there in first place. Bang! The confusion appeared in beast''s eyes, however it was too late. It landed in trap and fell into pit with bronze spears mounted into ground. Aron couldn''t stay in space, and he needed to use this opportunity to finish it off. His body appeared in same position with Transiency in his hand. The wolf''s body was pierced by multiple spears. Aron was surprised by its strong vitality, even with such grievous wounds it was struggling. "Time to end this!" He jumped into pit and used momentum of fall to strengthen his attack. HOOWL! His glaive pierced through body of beast and its life ended. Aron landed between spears on part of wolf''s body. ''Close call.'' His arm was aching like hell, however it wasn''t time for a break. There was Casper in terrible state and possible wolves to finish off. [Plundered: Leadership, Alpha''s pride, Mighty Roar¡­] Aron climbed out of the pit and Rirak approached him with anger on his face. "KID! You are¡­FUCKING INSANE!" His eyes showed some respect in courage of kid. "FOCUS! Critical matters first! How is Casper?" Aron didn''t want to meet fire in his house, after coming back to village. Suppressing will to fight was quite tiring. "He is stable. There are multiple wounds on his body¡­I cleaned them and stitched some of them to stabilize his body¡­ I am not sure if he survives the night¡­" Casper wasn''t young anymore and blood loss made him weaker. ''FUCK! I need to rush to save this moron. If he became my servant¡­I could invest in some regeneration trait¡­'' The stubbornness of Rose''s father was too much sometimes. "I will go to take care of him. Can you go and check situation in the forest¡­Once it''s safe, get some men to gather wolf''s corpses¡­We need to hurry¡­there are smaller predators with huge appetite¡­" They split and Aron rushed to village, while Rirak went to take care his assignment. Aron''s arm was still bleeding slowly, however his priority was to save life of a stupid hunter. Rose was sitting on bench before their house with tears inside her eyes. Aron didn''t have time to take care of a teenage girl with problems. "IT''S ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU BROUGHT THOSE HUNTERS TO VILLAGE! WOLVES DIDN''T ATTACK US BEFORE! IT''S ALL YOUR FAULT!" She started to blame Aron for her father''s condition. "Ohh? I am wrong? Wrong to try to improve quality of lives of those people? Wrong to save people from misery and death? You know what? I was really grateful for your help before¡­however I am tired of your bullshit right now! Your father is dying! Go inside and save him! I will fucking watch! COME ON! SHOW ME YOUR ABILITY!" Aron''s mind was tired of suppressing his desire to fight, so he simply snapped at the unstable girl. ''What am I doing?'' The patient could die in any moment and he was fighting with a mentally sick girl.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. "I¡­I am sorry¡­ I am¡­. Afraid¡­ Father is all I have¡­" She started crying and blaming herself for being so useless. A temperature started to rise, and evil part of personality woke up. "HOW DARE YOU! YOU STUPID HUMAN! TREAT HER LIKE THIS!" His harsh remarks tilted the second personality of her. "How dare I? It''s simple. You high and mighty fire elemental! Cannot save life of an ordinary human! Can you do anything outside of destroying things and running your mouth? No?... As I though." Aron decided to go all out and point out most painful truth. At worst case, he would hide inside of space and train. "YOUUUUU!" Rose''s evil personality got furious after hearing his words, still temperature lowered and real Rose took control. "SHUT UP! YOU ONLY LIE TO ME! YOU ARE SO POWERFUL! BUT YOU CANNOT HELP MY FATHER!" Rose got angry at her second personality, and she was often tempted by its words. She always wanted to take control and insisted that all people are evil. ''Fuck this...I need to enter house.'' Aron stopped caring about little girl and entered house. 71 Wolves 3 Casper was lying on bed, and his body was covered with linen bandages soaked in herbal mixtures. Carl was sitting next to him with sad expression on his face. "Aron¡­ his wounds are too much¡­ I doubt his survival¡­" Carl felt helpless, the only thing he could do is change bandages and soak them in herbal medicine. "Don''t worry. I will save him!" Aron''s arm was still covered in blood, and his appearance was mess. Mental exhaustion combined with tiredness was slowly kicking in. It wasn''t like his body was weak or something, it was more like he needed to rest to calm himself. [Casper] [State: Dying, Bleeding, Weakened, Pain] [Method of treatment: 1. Suturing all wounds. 2. Strengthening body with medicine. 3¡­] ''Suturing¡­I need to learn it fast¡­'' Aron entered space and took out pig leg from storage. The medicine interns and students trained their skills on pig legs or bananas. Sometimes on anything that was available. Aron needed to find a way to reach high level of suturing in fast manner. ''Library! Search for Suturing book!'' There were many different methods of suturing and he needed to find cheapest in library. [Suturing for beginners 50 KP] [Compendium of Suturing 250 KP] [Compendium of Suturing] [Desc: All suturing techniques from Earth compiled into simple book. It contains methods and personal experience of author.] ''Interesting. 250 points won''t be wasted. I can teach those techniques to doctors¡­'' Those points won''t be wasted in any way. Aron could instantly read any book, so his mind already had theory of suturing. [Simple Subcutaneous Suture lv.0(0/10k)] [Intern Doctor profession unlocked and activated] [Intern Doctor] [Level Cap:5] [Boost: +0.5 Int +0.5 Cha] [Basic Suturing generated] [Basic Disinfecting] [Basic Bandaging] [Basic ¡­]Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Aron received many basic skills of intern doctor. It was simple logic, interns were in most cases graduates of medical school. They needed to learn many skills during their education. ''Put points into Basic Suturing and Simple Subcutaneous Suture.'' The only problem was giant thread that wasn''t suitable for precise suturing. Aron appeared before Carl again and started to examine Casper''s wounds. This time, he needed to prioritize most those with greatest danger. It was fortunate that there were no wounds that would require thin thread. Most of them were only deep flesh wounds. ''His luck is great. All of his internal organs are intact.'' The last thing was taking care of all of those wounds. There was a lot stitching ahead of him and there was no time to lose. A two hour later, Casper''s body looked like Frankenstein. The last thing was to wait for Casper awakening or death. Carl couldn''t believe his own eyes, and people didn''t stitch wounds like Aron did. It was rather something new for old man to see. "He should be fine¡­ Continue to give him some herbal mixtures¡­ Call for me¡­ When he wakes up¡­" Aron needed to rest for while, however he needed to confirm Rirak assignment is done. ''I will rest¡­when everything is alright.'' Aron needed to take care of his people, those wolves could survive and try to get revenge on villagers. Fortunately, Rirak was back with group of villagers carrying carcasses of wolves. After seeing Aron, he approached with worry about Casper. "How is he? Did you do your magic?" His question was bizzare for all onlookers, but Aron answered with smile on his face. "I basically finished¡­what you started¡­I sutured all of his wounds." Rirak didn''t know that Aron could suture wounds, so he was little surprised. "Did you check entire forest for survivors of the pack?" Aron expression became serious. "We killed all adult wolves! We found their den¡­ Do you want to slaughter cubs?" Rirak anticipiated reaction of a young warrior. "No. Lead the way." The wolves will be great addition to his plans, and they could be nurtured into hounds. The wolf''s den was a cave, and you could hear a sound of whining and barking cubs. Rirak took care of all adults and blocked path of escape for the rest. Those cubs were terrified of them, Aron started to catch them one after another and put inside his space. Most of the cubs were ordinary gray wolf''s cubs, however there was one that was different. [Silver Demon Wolf] ''It''s offspring of those two alphas.'' Its father had genes of Silver wolf in him, and it was lucky to receive positive genes from both parents. The small wolf didn''t want to get caught like others, and it tried to bite Aron into his hand. ''It''s faster than ordinary humans. If it grows up¡­It will be a powerful beast.'' The idea of getting opportunity to tame a strong aide like this wolf was great. "You and your magic¡­" Rirak couldn''t comprehend this even after seeing it for multiple times. His world had many experts with paranormal powers, still he didn''t see spatial manipulation in his entire life. "We will talk tomorrow¡­I need some rest." There were some things to talk about with Rirak, however his state wasn''t suitable for serious conversations. His idea was simple, go to his mansion and gets some good sleep. His body didn''t need to sleep much thanks to increased vitality and endurance, however sleep was good way to let your mind reset a little. "Don''t think about such things. Crisis is resolved and you can rest without worry. I would offer you some liquor, but¡­" This issue will be resolved soon, he already prepared some devices for distillation. Aron entered his mansion and laid inside one of bedrooms, stress accumulated during last days made him extremely tired. His eyes closed itself automatically in mere seconds, finally he got some sleep. A next day morning, Aron awoke full of energy with motivation to do great things. First thing was to check a condition of Casper, he ordered Carl previously to call for him if anything happens. Sleep without interruption meant Casper safety. Rose was sleeping on a bench before her house, Aron passed by her without making any noise. Carl was sitting next to Casper, and hunter''s state was stable. "It''s hard to believe¡­but he is stable. I think he will wake up in time being." There was chance of complications like infection or other medical problems, but Aron believed that this moron will come back to health. "Call someone to change you, old man. You need some rest!" Their problem was simple, best person for this job was he or Aron. Rest of people won''t be able to save Casper in case of emergency. Carl could only apply herbal medicine, so his ability to intervene wasn''t reliable either. ''I am not a doctor. Let someone stay here and watch him. I will set a small workbench outside of house.'' Aron knew basic techniques of medical intern, so his ability to save people was little better. 72 Caspers Recovery. Aron started to plan a distillation plan, he decided to brew some fruit''s wine and use it to create stronger alcohol. There was a simple problem in his plan, and he lacked sugar and he remembered that it wasn''t available in this era. ''I wonder if they cultivate sugar cane or beet¡­'' Villagers didn''t use spices and didn''t even know what''s the sugar. Aron needed to visit city to search for necessary ingredients, this project was postponed as alcohol wasn''t real necessity. ''It''s autumn. I need to create some recreation center and prepare those people for winter.'' Food wasn''t problem for his, however he couldn''t let villagers depend on his power. ''They store food in silos and stone jars¡­'' There would be risk of wheat getting spoiled if it was exposed to moisture. The dried meat wasn''t tasty, still it was great source of calories in dire days of winter. ''Too bad¡­many people didn''t want to rebuild their houses into better design.'' The most of people didn''t decide to rebuild their houses, change was always hard for stupid people. ''I actually wish for disaster to destroy their houses¡­'' It would accelerate the change, still his plan was going faster with disappearance of wolf''s pack. ''I don''t need this forest anymore. I will breed those animals myself.'' The lack of predator could attract stronger beasts to take over this territory. ''I fucked up this food chain already. Let''s capture rest of the animals.'' This world didn''t lack forests and he didn''t plan a going path of destruction as Earth''s humans. Territory required some adjustments and organization, planning positions of forests and settlements was very important for a future of his plans. "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" It was voice of Casper, and his body was in pain. "Don''t move, or you will fucking bleed out." Moving with so many stitches could basically kill him, he needed to rest for few days and wait until his body heals. Aron entered the house as Casper wasn''t type of person with great intelligence, and Aron didn''t want to stitch his wounds again. "It''s second time¡­We are saving you¡­and you cannot stay still for a while? Do you want your daughter to bury you?" Casper stopped his movement, and his daughter didn''t have any family beside him. His death would cause huge impact on her. "You are right¡­ I am sorry¡­" Casper was sad about his life, during the small span of time this boy saved his life twice. "Don''t worry. You will be back on your feet in two weeks. We took care of wolves, so forest is safer." There were no strong predators for time being in this forest, he needed Casper to train people. His goal was to build an army. "You killed the beast?! That''s wonderful! Who taught you such lifesaving techniques? It''s first time, I see so many fucking stitches on one body!" He didn''t see such techniques, even in house of monsters that experimented on his wife. "That''s actually beginner''s work. Real professional doctors won''t need so much time and effort to patch up your body." Aron wasn''t proficient in suturing techniques, even after adding skill points into suturing related skills. The body needed to adjust to newly aquired skills. "Let''s get back to topic. My offer is still available for you. What do you think?" The dire state of Casper was perfect opportunity for recruitment attempt. "Kid¡­ I don''t want to go back to this¡­" Casper was hesitating and trying to stop this topic. "I told you once. I want your knowledge¡­.not your skills. I need teacher for new generations of talents." The truth was simple, Casper wasn''t strong and his potential was pretty low. The only use for him was guidance for new generations. There was possibility of Aron fixing his body and improving his potential, however it was easier to nurture new generation of killers than obtain secret methods. ''If he refuses once more, I won''t ever help him in future¡­'' Ungrateful bastards didn''t deserve any assistance and he even thought about banishing such person from his city. "I won''t be able to hunt in this season anyway. If you can ensure safety of my daughter¡­I will work for you¡­" Casper agreed to become his servant, and notification confirmed those words.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''I can accelerate his healing process¡­ It would be easier if he got up from this bed sooner¡­'' There was possibility of his help during clearing the forest, so Aron wanted to make his recovery faster. ''I could add him regeneration trait¡­'' The master could grant his servants some traits for the high price. [Highspeed regeneration ¨C 25 K WE] ''How much? 25 K for this¡­'' The price was high; however Aron couldn''t be stingy. The investment will eventually lead to profit. "I don''t understand¡­ Thanks¡­" Casper was speechless, his body was filled with warm feeling. It was regenerating on visible manner. "I will need to remove thread in few hours¡­" The effect of skill was great, his body experienced those effects multiple times during tough battles. ''My healing factor is better¡­ It''s insane¡­ I will create an immortal army¡­ HAHA'' Aron smiled after creating another insane army idea. ''Super soldiers¡­ Stronger¡­faster¡­better equipped¡­unkillable!'' Conquering world wouldn''t be so hard, he needed to get his hands on some secret techniques and things would go smooth. Aron decided to leave Casper and have conversation with Rirak. Aron was happy about bringing him to this world. "Let''s talk now. First¡­ I am really grateful for this trap. This beast could take my life back there." Aron wasn''t type of person to not reward his subordinates, and Rirak was best and he deserved for good treatment. "Don''t talk like this boss. I am sure if you died¡­ I would need to go the city and come back to dirty business." Rirak was working as mercenary and claimed many lives during his life. "I want to talk about future. If you could recreate your clan in this world would you?" It was simple question, and Aron could infuse people with Sinas bloodline. "No. I won''t lie about it. I hope Selise won''t get into family bussines¡­ I thought it over and Sinas should be buried with me¡­" There was trace of bitternes in words of Rirak. "I don''t understand. Why? You have power¡­ You could do incredible things." Aron started to press on Rirak to get more information. "Power, huh? Every power has its source¡­ and our source is death itself¡­ every life we take becomes our strength¡­ cost of such power is sanity¡­" Rirak stopped for a moment and continued. "It''s okay. We had our codex. We weren''t mass murderers. Until¡­ that day¡­ Scientist created drug that could increase performance even further¡­ it was perfect¡­ at least we thought so at beginning¡­ it was good stimulant¡­ however in after longer exposure¡­users became aggressive and mentally unstable¡­ some younger ones started to take this drug and lost their minds in the process¡­ they slaughtered people for power¡­ as their power increased their decided to change hierarchy in clan¡­ it became blood bath¡­ I was on long mission and I was terrified after I came back to clan¡­ I decided to hunt down every person responsible for this¡­ I hunted and hunted¡­ they were strong¡­but I was smart¡­ after last battle¡­ I was injured and mentally broken¡­ I was killing my own family¡­ I was covered in blood and sat under wall¡­ looking into the sky and waiting for ride to hell¡­ however she saved me¡­ Selise''s mother¡­ She was from Lei clan, but our clans weren''t in a good relationship¡­" Rirak described his problems and told him his concerns. "I understand. What about Selise''s mother? Where is she now?" There was one piece missing of the story. "You know¡­ I was captured by skinners¡­ Lei clan controls those underground organizations¡­ Selise and I were stain on their honor¡­ and after they mercilessly killed her¡­ they wanted our lives." They had to escape from one place to another, and he wanted his daughter to live peaceful life at any cost. ''Power from kills. It''s bizarre¡­ I wonder how it works¡­'' Rirak might change his mind in the future, however currently Aron didn''t propose anything related to this matter. ''I can plunder things from my kills. Maybe their power works in similar way.'' 73 Preparation for winter. Rose was happy her father recovered from this critical situation, however she felt useless. ''Aron was right. I am useless and you are useless too¡­'' She thought and her second personality kicked in and screamed inside of her mind. ''STUPID! You believed in words in this evil human! KILL THEM ALL! YOU WILL BE KILLED AND RAVAGED BY THEM! GET RID OF THEM! GIVE ME CONTROL!'' It screamed with fury inside of her mind, still Rose was quite calm. ''I cannot let your grudge against humans¡­ waste my life. I don''t want to hear you anymore.'' Rose''s words muted all trials of second personality to talk. ''I want to be useful¡­'' It was great moment, and she decided to search for job that could help people. Aron was organizing assignments for villagers, and some people were assigned to lumbering the word and others were preparing warm clothes. Few of them were tasked to capture remaining animals alive for him. "Good morning, Aron." Rose tried to greet him with awkward expression, their last conversation wasn''t pleasant experience. She thought that Aron might be still mad at her. "Good morning." Aron wasn''t interested in conversation with her at all, so his response seemed forced and she could hear irritation in his voice. "I want to help too. Can you give me some work?" They didn''t waste time anymore, and Aron put her with women taking care of weaving clothes from linen. Everyone was busy in the village, winter was coming in slow speed. ''I need to visit Clay village. Copperhead Village will be last¡­.Hmmm.. Red maple Village. I totally forgot about it.'' This village had hunter''s family, and it was far from Amber Village. His speed could make this journey short, however it will still take day or so to get there. His training with languages allowed him to reach advanced level of language decrypting, it was great experience to be able to decode languages with almost zero similarities of his own. It was almost something like guessing meaning of letters and words. ''It''s great skill. I would question validity of those guesses if not system''s help.'' The system wasn''t logical thing, and if he did such decryption in his previous world. People would consider him as fraud with such method of encryption.Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. His unknown pack from Earth was almost finished, and he didn''t get much useful things. There was one scroll about Buddhist mantra, and it was actually useful for his ''anger'' issues. The people believed that every monk was bald man without any desire. There were Buddhist practitioners that weren''t bound by celibate. Those rules were made to allow monk or priest focus on their faith, isolate themselves from mortal desires. ''I will use this technique to calm my mind.'' His thoughts fell on technique, and he stopped practicing. The gluttonous physique was hard to practice, and hunger was hard to endure. ''This will be to problematic for time being. I need to improve my ranch.'' There were only few spiritual pigs in his ranch, not even one of other animals evolved. It was quite disappointing, and predicting needs of the 3rd stage of a gluttonous physique, he would go bankrupt. He left Amber Village and went to Clay Village. In his surprise people managed to accumulate some bricks and paper, they stopped working on those tasks as they needed to prepare for winter. "Hey, kid! There is not time for your tasks¡­" Alex started to explaining himself to Aron, atmosphere became uncomfortable. "Stop. I understand. I didn''t come for those things. I will take paper and bricks from you in exchange for linen and some wool. What do you think?" Aron''s offer was heaven sent for his village, every year some people died of malnutrition and lack of warm clothes. Winter wasn''t merciful for poor villagers. "Kid¡­I don''t know what to say. I can only accept this deal." His voice contained gratitude and happiness, and those people were his responsibility and Aron allowed him to save them from danger. "I have food to for exchange. Animal products, grain, fruits and vegetables. We can make a fair deal." His storage contained amount of food that could feed 10 villages like this one. Exchanging some of his resources for gratitude and future subordinates wasn''t bad deal. "Tell villagers to focus on preparation for winter. You can work on my task later." His paper project was important, however there were mills in Amber Village that could create necessary product. "Thanks, Boss! You don''t know how much those things mean to our village!" Alex started to talk about recent events in a village, and he even asked about rumors of him slaying the giant wolf. "I didn''t slay strongest one without help. Rirak assisted me." Those rumors were bizarre, how those people communicated with each other on distance. "Ahh. It''s Mark. He is traveling from one village to another. You know¡­ he is courting the daughter of one of the ranchers¡­ He brings news from time to time." Their method of communication was simple, even in such hard times there were some people traveling great distances on their feet. ''Training birds to deliver messages? I will try it later. I need to master my Animal Breeder profession.'' There was animal trainer profession that could actually help him with this project, however progress on Animal Breeder was slowed down by other things. Aron traded his goods with Alex, and it wasn''t really fair trade. Exchanging winter necessities for some rocks and processed paper was crazy in Alex mind. "I will visit during winter. You can always send someone to me if you lacked something for winter." Aron promised those people a better future, so he couldn''t allow them to die from hunger or a cold. Those were first steps to strengthen his position and open people''s minds for change. ''Sooner or later. All of them will follow each of my order!'' It wasn''t hard to achieve, and still Aron wanted those people to allow him to lead with their own wills. ''They might be stupid. They might be weak¡­however not everything can be achieved by fear and power.'' A ruling by fear is simple and he could achieve things through harder means, without unnecessary bloodshed. 74 Info. I will try to release it in a more stable manner. I will try to make up for a long time without release. Thanks for the support. Your unreliable author, Wanderer. 75 Temporary Hiatus. Hello. I didn''t update for a long time. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. You probably forgot about my story. However, if you didn''t forget about me and my story. I need to do a project and I am currently working on this most of my time. I have a job too and there are a couple of things outside of this that make my life complete shit. Don''t worry! There are only 3 weeks left to the deadline, so I finish my project/thesis or fail it. The story will be in hiatus for more than 3 weeks as I need to move to another city after finishing my uni. I hope I graduate... I will come back after a few weeks with some releases. Wait for me if you can. Your unreliable author Wanderer. 76 Info Hello. I graduated! YAY! It took me longer than I predicted. I had some problems with my thesis and I needed to postpone my deadline. YEAH, I NEEDED TO DEAL WITH Buorocracy and other shit... I got more time and I finished everything. Finally, my thesis was accepted and I needed only to defend it. It was stressful as fuck. Luckily, I succeeded! I can finally come back to you. I had a lot of time to think about the timeline of this story. The most important events in my story are in my head and everything between is something that I create on the spot while writing. I thought that my first volume is a good way to introduce some shit to the story, however, I was mistaken. I didn''t use this much and instead, I added more holes to the entire plot. I want to rewrite the story and change some things. The problem is my writing skills. I know it''s impossible to improve without real effort. I am a lazy guy, you know. I didn''t want to hurt your feelings. You read the story and some of you are still waiting for an update. I am still thinking about the decision. I want to hear your thoughts too. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Your Lazy Unreliable Author Wanderer.